Vigmostad Church

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|name = Vigmostad Church

|fullname = Vigmostad kirke

|former name =

|image = Vigmostad Kirke 1.jpg

|caption = View of the church

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|location = Lindesnes Municipality,
Agder

|country = Norway

|churchmanship = Evangelical Lutheran

|denomination = Church of Norway

|diocese = Agder og Telemark

|deanery = Lister og Mandal prosti

|parish = Lindesnes

|status = Parish church

|functional status = Active

|founded date = 13th century

|consecrated date = 1848

|completed date = {{Start date and age|p=y|1848}}

|closed date =

|events =

|architect = Hans Linstow and
Nils Jensson Lassen

|architectural type = Cruciform

|style =

|materials = Wood

|capacity = 400

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|Type = Church

|Status = Automatically protected

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Vigmostad Church ({{langx|no|Vigmostad kirke}}) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Lindesnes Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vigmostad. It is one of the churches for the Lindesnes parish which is part of the Lister og Mandal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, wooden church was built in a cruciform design in 1848 by the parish priest Nils Jensson Lassen using plans by the famous Norwegian architect Hans Linstow. The church seats about 400 people.{{Cite web |title=Vigmostad kirke |url=https://kirkesok.no/kirke/102900301 |access-date=2020-12-30 |publisher=Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen}}{{Cite web |title=Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker |url=http://www.kirkekonsulenten.no/kirker.htm |access-date=2020-12-30 |publisher=KirkeKonsulenten.no |language=Norwegian}}

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1369, but it was not new that year. The first church building here was likely a stave church. In 1781, the old church was torn down and replaced with a new timber-framed building. In 1848, a new church was built immediately to the north of the old building. After the new building was completed, the old church was torn down.{{Cite web |title=Vigmostad kirkested |url=http://www.kulturminnesok.no/kulturminnesok/kulturminne/?LOK_ID=85831 |access-date=2020-12-30 |publisher=Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage |language=Norwegian}}

In 1814, this church served as an election church ({{langx|no|valgkirke}}).{{Cite web |title=Valgkirkene |url=https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Valgkirkene |access-date=2020-12-30 |website=LokalHistorieWiki.no |language=Norwegian}} Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.{{Cite web |title=Om valgene |url=http://1814.arkivverket.no/#about-elections |access-date=2020-12-30 |website=Valgene i 1814 |publisher=Arkivverket |language=Norwegian}}