Fredrikstad Cathedral

Fredrikstad Cathedral is a cathedral placed inside the west of the metropolis of Fredrikstad, Norway. It is the Episcopal seat of the Diocese of Borg of the Church of Norway. The church becomes expanded to cathedral status in 1969 with the advent of the new Diocese of Borg. The cathedral has space for 1100 people. The church became in the beginning designed via architect Ferdinand Waldemar Luhr as a parish church. It changed into constructed among 1879 and 1880 within the Gothic Revival style in brick, with a floor plan within the shape of a Latin move.

It has a single tower of seventy two meters in top on the western quit, which is part of the main façade. It turned into consecrated on thirteen October 1880 while it become first called Fredrikstad Vestre kirke Fredrikstad west church. The cathedral capabilities stained glass in the choir by means of Emanuel Vigeland from 1916 to s1917, a portray by using Wilhelm Peters from 1897 and an altarpiece by using Waldemar S. Dahl providing the Four Evangelists, Moses and Aaron and two angels.