Valle Church (Valle)


Valle Church is a parish church in Valle municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Valle. The church is part of the Valle og Hyllestad parish in the Otredal deanery in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, wooden, cruciform church was built in 1844 by Anders Thorsen Syrtveit using plans by the famous architect Hans Linstow. There have been churches in Valle since the Middle Ages.
The main part of the church is and the choir is. Altogether with the entrance and the sacristy, the church is. The church seats about 400 people comfortably on the main floor and in the upper gallery. Traditionally, the gallery sat about 150 unmarried people and the main floor sat about 350 married people. The steeple is tall.