Skien Church

Skien Church is a Neo-Gothic church from 1894, located in Skien, Telemark county in Norway. The church is the principle church in Skien and has 1,two hundred seats. The church is forty seven meters lengthy with a tower top of 68 meters for two twin towers, the interior top is 17 meters. The church turned into designed through architect Hagbarth Martin Schytte-Berg. Inspiration became taken from the German architects John Vollmer and John Otzens. The church become consecrated on August 31, 1894 via Bishop Johan Christian Heuch of the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.

The organ in Skien Church is one among the most important in Norway with over 5000 pipes. Skien Church has a mixture of Neo-Gothic pointed arches and circular arches. In the chancel arch we see the arch, transept has also pointed arches on the top, while the galleries and the longitudinal aspect ships have round arches. The inventive decoration in Skien Church is more often than not characterised with the aid of stained-glass home windows within the choir, transept, baptism sacristy, and the ornamentation at the walls and ceilings.