Vadsø Church

The church in front of you is the fourth to be built in Vadsø. The previous church, a wooden church from 1861, was bombed on the night of 28–29 October 1944.

The new church was designed by the architect Magnus Poulsson and consecrated in 1958. Poulsson himself called it Ishavskirken — the Arctic Ocean Church — because the door sits between two tall, pointed towers that look like great icebergs. The church’s decoration is the work of Grete Thiis Schjetne.