Uranienborg kirke
Uranienborg kirke stands beside Uranienborg Park in central Oslo, just behind the Royal Palace. Built in 1886 from brick, the parish church presents a Gothic character through its pointed arches and tall, structured forms.
Balthazar Lange designed the building, which became Oslo’s most expensive church project at the time. Arnstein Arneberg reshaped the interior in 1930, while Emanuel Vigeland’s stained-glass windows still bring colour and light inside. The original frescoes by Enevold Thømt have disappeared, but services, concerts, ceremonies and community gatherings continue in the main hall, which accommodates about 600 people and 50 more in the gallery.
Music gives the church another distinctive voice: a Kuhn concert organ installed in 2010 contains 56 stops and 3,637 pipes. Above the building, a 37-bell carillon includes a largest bell weighing 1,600 kilograms and a smallest weighing 14 kilograms.
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