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with a lower roof line that measured about 5.6 by 5.6 metres (18 ft × 18 ft). The church seated about 120 people. In the 1870s, the need for a new church was apparent. Jon Jonsen Alvær was hired to design the new church. Plans were drawn in 1872, and they were later revised before
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structure and some of the materials from the old church were reused in the construction of the tower on the new church. Local oral tradition says that there was a painted inscription in the church that said the church was
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