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Description

The plan illustration for the Nordreisa Church shows a long church with a porch (entrance) and choirs annexed to each end of the nave. Some characteristic aspects of the illustration are two cogging jointed boxes (located at the transitional point between the nave and the choir), along with two annexed vestibules (situated at the lowest level in the nave). These vestibules, however, were never built. Grosch employed annexes as stabilising elements in his construction work of wooden churches. Grosch used this plan illustration to design other churches in Northern Norway. Unfortunately, these churches either have been destroyed or are left unrecognizable, because of reconstruction work.

Nordreisa kirke