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The Church of the Free Port is one of several churches built with funds raised by the Society for the Construction of Small Churches in Copenhagen. The organization was founded at the initiative of Dorothea von Ripperda, a young noblewoman who learned about the severe shortage of churches in the new
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districts of Copenhagen at a meeting in the mission house Bethesda in 1886. She was later joined by many other young women who participated in the collection of money for the cause.
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The church is oriented north-south and has a tower at its north-eastern corner. It is built in red brick with pilasters at the corners and between the round arched windows.
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was charged with the design of the church which was completed in 1905. Its first pastor was H.P. Mollerup who later founded
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which had been established on the coast just east of the church a decade earlier.
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55°41′56″N 12°35′19″E / 55.69889°N 12.58861°E / 55.69889; 12.58861
Willemoesgade
Østerbro
Copenhagen
Denmark
Denomination
Church of Denmark
www.sanktjakobskirke.dk
Church
Architect(s)
Thorvlad Jørgensen
Church
Style
Materials
Brick
Archdiocese
Diocese of Copenhagen
Danish
Church of Denmark
Østerbro
Copenhagen
Denmark
Thorvald Jørgensen
Christiansborg Palace
Parliament
Freeport of Copenhagen
Thorvald Jørgensen
Church Army
"Kirkerne"

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