Reykjavik

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: the late 18th-century building that replaced the medieval church here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2003 by JuTa [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjavík_Cathedral#mediaviewer/File:Domkirkjan-Reykjavík-Iceland-20030526.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the modern font is visible in the centre of the presbitery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2009 by Wolfgang Sauber [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domkirkjan_Innenraum.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2014]

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: the present font: 1839, the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2009 by Wolfgang Sauber [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domkirkjan_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 20 June 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19281REY

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Dómkirkjan í Reykjavík

Church Location: Kirkjustræti, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland

Country Name: Iceland

Location: Reykjavik

Directions to Site: Located at Austurvöllur, next to the Alþingishúsið (Parliament House)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Iceland

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Church Notes: original church ca. 1200; present building is late-18thC

Font Notes: Click to view

The present font is modern, of 1839, the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the medieval church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 64.1467, -21.9394

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 64° 8′ 48.12″ N, 21° 56′ 21.84″ W

UTM: 27W 454294 7113699