Risskov Church

Risskov Kirke is a church positioned inside the Risskov Parish of the Danish city, Aarhus.The Risskov Parish separated from the Vejlby Parish 30 November 1940. The Church turned into initially built in 1922 as a villa for chocolatier Fritz George Clausen, founding father of the chocolate manufacturing facility Elvirasminde, and was designed via architect Vilhelm Puck. After the demise of Clausen's widow in 1933, her heirs donated the Villa to the currently fashioned Risskov Church Committee, satisfying a desire she had expressed to her family earlier than her death.

The villa turned into adapted by means of architect Aksel Skov and the Church changed into consecrated on the primary Sunday of Advent, 2 December 1934. The gift chancel become introduced in 1968. The Church turned into rededicated to Bishop Kjeld Holm in 1999. A glass mosaic in the east stop serves as the altarpiece. An altarpiece is an artwork which include a painting, sculpture or comfort representing a spiritual subject made for putting behind the altar of a Christian church.