Ullern Church, Oslo, Norway

Standing: High
Rank: Rank 92 of 3,842

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

About Ullern Church

Ullern Church is the parish church of Ullern parish in the Ullern borough of Oslo, a Romanesque-style stone cruciform church from 1903 on the Holgerslyst property, with 800 seats. The original drawings by Georg Andreas Bull were reworked by Johan Storm Munch in 1899 but were lost the same year when the building housing Munch's office burned down, so the commission went to Harald Bødtker. The cruciform building is dominated by a massive square central tower with three windows on each side, topped by a copper-clad pyramid spire.

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What's inside

The apse of the choir is dominated by Eilif Peterssen's fresco 'The Ascension of Christ' from 1908–1909, made in close collaboration with Domenico Erdmann. On the altar in front of the fresco is a marble baldachin designed by Bødtker, who also designed the pulpit. The stained glass windows date from 1915–1916 and were designed and made by several artists, among them Gabriel Kielland and Karl Kristiansen. The 34-voice organ, built by Åkerman & Lund of Knivsta in 1987, is influenced by the ideals of the French Baroque.

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