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Holy Cross Church, Copenhagen

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269: 36: 311:(1839-1922) was charged with designing the church. He presented his first design proposal to the committee in 1887 and the final design was approved in 1888. The most significant change was the windows. The building was constructed by master mason Christian Wilhelm Rask Licht's company C. Licht. The church was inaugurated on 19 January 1890 in the presence of members of the royal family. 292:
for the project. Funding for construction of the church building came partly from the city and partly from fund-raising among private citizens. One of the largest contributors was coffee wholesaler
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neighbourhood of Nørrebro. Further work with realizing the project was placed in the hands of a commission headed by provost Conrad Rothe and mayor Hans Hansen. The city donated a corner of the old
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Holy Cross Church is as of 1999 located in Blågård Parish. Blågård Church has later been decommissioned and is now used as a community centre.
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but also many local craftsmen made donations. The name was selected in 1887 and was inspired by the location at the end of the
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Holy Cross Parish was at the same time disjoined from St. John'sm Parish, by then, had reached 70,000 residents.
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In 1886, Københavns Præstekonvent decided to build a new church in the
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Holy Cross Church was used as a filming location in the 1994 thriller
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Holy Cross Church

Hans Tavsens Gade
55°41′15.6″N 12°33′5″E / 55.687667°N 12.55139°E / 55.687667; 12.55139
Nørrebro
Copenhagen
Denmark
Denomination
Church of Denmark
Church
Architect(s)
Hermann Baagøe Storck
Church
Style
National Romanticl
Materials
Brick
Diocese
Diocese of Copenhagen
Danish
Church of Denmark
Kapelvej
Hans Tavsens Gade
Nørrebro
Copenhagen
Denmark
National Romantic
Hermann Baagøe Storck
One of Storch's renderings
Rantzausgade

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