Sulitjelma Church


Sulitjelma Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sulitjelma. It is the church for the Sulitjelma parish which is part of the Salten prosti in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1899 by the architect Worm Hirsch Lund. The church seats about 300 people.

History

The building was consecrated on 12 November 1899 by Bishop Peter Wilhelm Bøckman. In 1996, a new parish graveyard was built on the southern part of the village, and the Sulitjelma Chapel was built on that site.

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