American Lutheran Church, Oslo

November 11, 2014 – 09:24 am
American Lutheran Church, OsloPhoto: Hendes A. Rosbach/Wikipedia

Additionally to delivering many Norwegians towards the US, the Fulbright Program of competitive, merit-based grants or loans for worldwide exchange of scholars, students, instructors, professionals, researchers and artist introduced American grantees to Norwegian. The College of Oslo organised the ‘Summer School for American Students’ in 1947. It had been so effective and came a lot of students from across the world that it is title was transformed towards the Worldwide Summer time School in 1958.

The United States Embassy had reopened following the War in May 1945 coupled with soon found its offices in a tiny annex towards the diplomatic residence at Rental property Otium woefully insufficient. So a brand new purpose-built embassy have been planned. Famous Finnish architect Eero Saarinen was commissioned for that design in 1953, and also the new embassy was carried out 1959.

There clearly was an excuse for a united states Chapel with increased People in america within the city. Consequently, the Evangelical Lutheran Chapel in the usa (ELCA) sent Pastor Oscar C. Hanson (1908-2009) to Oslo to determine a congregation.

Pastor Hanson founded the congregation on 12 October 1958. Services were locked in leased premises in downtown Oslo in the beginning. A chapel was commissioned, and created by American designers Methri &lifier Mattson of Northfield, Minnesota – most known in Norwegian as the house of the Lutheran Saint Olaf College, founded in 1874. The chapel has 400 seats and it was consecrated on 11 October 1964. It's also utilized by the Icelandic congregation in Oslo.

Today the Chapel concentrates on offering services in British to short-term and lengthy-term citizens from the city in addition to embassy personnel, foreign students, refugees and vacationers. The congregation offers two groups of membership accordingly. Regular People are individuals whose primary chapel affiliation is by using the ALC. Connect People are individuals holding primary membership in another chapel, including temporary citizens who would like to retain membership within their home places of worship.

Details:

  • Membership: 300, with variation by season.
  • An British-speaking worldwide, ecumenical congregation associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Chapel in the usa (ELCA).

Editor’s note: We invite visitors to see previous articles within this ongoing series concentrating on religions in Norwegian: The Lutheran Chapel, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Orthodoxy, Methodism, the Baptist Chapel, Seventh-day Adventism, The Mormon Chapel, Jehova’s Witnesses, the Brunstad Christian Chapel, Pentecostalism, the Quakers and Anglicanism.


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Source: theforeigner.no

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