Nidaros Cathedral (Norway)

Nidaros Cathedral (Norwegian: Nidarosdomen / Nidaros Domkirke) is a Church of Kingdom of Norway cathedral located inward the urban heart too somebody of Trondheim inward Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It was the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nidaros from its institution inward 1152 until its abolition inward 1537. Since the Reformation, it has been the cathedral of the Lutheran bishops of Trondheim (or Nidaros) inward the Diocese of Nidaros. The architectural vogue of the cathedral is Romanesque too Gothic. Historically it was an of import destination for pilgrims coming from all of Northern Europe. It is the northernmost medieval cathedral inward the world.

Along amongst Vår Frue Church, the cathedral is business office of the Nidaros og Vår Frue parish inward the Nidaros deanery inward the Diocese of Nidaros.

Building too restoration

Work on the cathedral started inward 1070 too was finished sometime simply about 1300. The cathedral was badly damaged past times fires inward 1327 too i time to a greater extent than inward 1531. The nave westward of the transept was destroyed too was non rebuilt until the restoration inward early on 1900s. In 1708 it burned downward completely except for the rock walls. It was struck past times lightning inward 1719, too was i time to a greater extent than ravaged past times fire. Major rebuilding too restoration of the cathedral started inward 1869, initially led past times architect Heinrich Ernst Schirmer, too nearly completed past times Christian Christie. It was officially completed inward 2001. Maintenance of the cathedral is an ongoing process.

The oldest parts of the cathedral consist of the octagon amongst its surrounding ambulatory inward which was the master copy high altar amongst the reliquary casket of St. Olav too choir. The master copy inspiration for this octagon may convey been the Corona of Canterbury Cathedral, although octagonal shrines convey a long history inward Christian architecture. The choir itself appears to convey been inspired past times the Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral too is joined to the octagon past times a rock enshroud that fills the entire eastward side of the choir. The principal arch of this enshroud is subdivided into 3 subsidiary arches the fundamental arch framing a statue of Christ the Teacher standing on the top of a fundamental arch of 3 farther subsidiary arches below him. The infinite inward a higher house the principal arch too corresponding to the vault of the choir contains a crucifix betwixt statues of the Virgin Mary too the Apostle John past times the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland. Built into the due north side of the ambulatory surrounding the octagon is a modest good from which a bucket was could lowered to pull upward H2O could hold upward drawn from the jump that originated from St. Olav's master copy burial house beneath the afterwards cathedrals.

The acquaint cathedral has 2 principal altars. The i inward the octagon at the eastward terminate of the chancel rests on the site of the medieval high altar which bore the silverish reliquary casket containing the remains of St. Olav, the church's too the kingdom's patron saint, too is designed to shout out upward inward marble sculpture the essential shape of this reliquary casket. It replaces the previous baroque altar shortly inward Vår Frue Church. The minute altar is inward the crossing where the transept intersect the nave too the chancel. It bears a large modern silverish crucifix inspired past times the retention of a like silverish crucifix inward the medieval church building too was commissioned too paid for past times Norwegian American emigrants inward the early on twentieth century. The medieval chapter theater may too hold upward used every bit a chapel for smaller groups of worshipers.

All the stained drinking glass inward the cathedral dates from its rebuilding inward the 19th too 20th centuries. The windows on the due north side of the church building depicts scenes from the Old Testament against a bluish background, spell those on the southward side of the church building pull scenes from the New Testament against a ruby-red background.

Organs

Two organs are installed inward the Cathedral. The principal organ was built past times the Steinmeyer trouble solid inward 1930, too was erected inward the due north transept. It thence had 125 stops. Installation of the Steinmeyer organ was commissioned inward 1930 for the 900th anniversary of the Battle of Stiklestad. The organ was funded by too large past times donations, peculiarly past times Elias Anton Cappelen Smith. In 1962, the organ was heavily rebuilt too moved to the westward nave. Many stops were removed; some of them were used to receive a novel choir organ

The one-time Baroque organ built past times Johann Joachim Wagner inward 1738-1740 was carefully restored past times Jürgen Ahrend betwixt 1993-1994. It has thirty stops too is located at a gallery inward the due north transept.

At present

Today, the cathedral is a pop tourist attraction. Tourists oftentimes follow the historical pilgrim routes to view the spectacular church. It is too featured on the encompass of dark metallic ring Mayhem's album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.