- Norwegian Lutheran Church (Grytviken, South Georgia)
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Norwegian Lutheran Church 
The Norwegian Lutheran Church in Grytviken (built in 1913)Location: South Georgia Built: 1913 Norwegian Lutheran Church in Grytviken, South Georgia, was built in 1913. It is of the Church of Norway. The church was pre-built in Norway and erected in Grytviken by whalers led by Carl Anton Larsen. This typical Norwegian church, one of the most southern churches on earth, was consecrated on Christmas Day in 1913. In 1922, a funeral service for Sir Ernest Shackleton was conducted in this church before his burial in the church cemetery.[1]
References
- ^ Endurance (by Caroline Alexander. London: Bloomsbury. 1998)
Categories:- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Church buildings in Antarctica
- Religious buildings completed in 1913
- 20th-century Lutheran church buildings
- 1913 establishments
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