Torshavn / Thorshavn / Tórshavn [disappeared?]
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view of church exterior - northwest end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2006 by Matthewross [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B3rshavn_Cathedral#mediaviewer/File:Torshavn_Cathedral.JPG] [accessed 21 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2014 by John Wilkes
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2006 by Matthewross [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B3rshavn_Cathedral#mediaviewer/File:Torshavn_Cathedral_2.JPG] [accessed 21 July 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19284TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Havnar Kirkja / Dómkirkjan
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands
Directions to Site: Located on the SE coast of Streymoy, S of the Húsareyn mountain
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of the Faroe Islands
Date: ca. 1609?
Century and Period: 17th century(early?)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes for his photograph of this church
Church Notes: no recorded church in the Middle Ages; first recorded church here in early 17thC; major re-buildings in 1788, of which the present church chiefly remains, and mid-19thC; expanded in 1935 and 1968;
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the original ca. 1609 church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 62.01, -6.772
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 62° 0′ 36″ N, 6° 46′ 19.2″ W
UTM: 29V 616642 6877297