Dalen chapel 

Source: Christie, Sigrid og Håkon. Norges kirker Akershus Bd. 2. Norske minnesmerker. Forlaget land og kirker Oslo 1969.

The chapel is in the southern part of Fet parish, about 6 km south of the main church, at Gans farm. The site was donated by Westye Egeberg. Spruce and birch trees have been planted in the area around the chapel, there is currently not a cemetery on the premises. In 1997 the chapel attained church status.

The Building 

The chapel was constructed with wood based on drawings. It was dedicated on November 14th 1905. It consists of a rectangular room with a north-south orientation and alter in the south wall. South of the chapel is an annex with two skaristier and a common hall. Inside the main entrance on the north is a small porch as wide as the chapel itself with a stairway to the gallery above the porch and then to the ridge turret. The quadrilateral ridge turret has a zinc roof. North of the ridge turret is the chapel's tile bedecked saddle roof with a gable edifice above the entrance. The chapel's walls of half-timber are built on a granite foundation and are painted in a white carpenter's coating on the exterior. Each longside has four pairs of high rectangular windows. Each side of the alter has two columns that support a timber arch.

Interiør 

The pulpit is to the right, the baptismal font is to the left of the alter. The gallery is above the entrance on the north. It is oven heated. I t has electric lights.

The colors of Kristoffer Eriksen Ganer 1955: Light green walls up to the windows, above that a light, red like beige. A light blue paneled ceiling with somewhat darker beams. Above the alter a glass painting of two angels by Kristoffer Eriksen Ganer. 

Inventory 

Alter Is close into the choir wall under a niche with an architectonic frame with the inscription 'All glory to God' In the niche is a plaster copy of Thorvaldsen's 'Kristus'. 

Kneechair with a plush red covering. 

Alter railing, arched Knee bench and hand board in a plush red covering. 

Baptismal font, plaster shaped, whitewashed. 

Pulpit, built into the columns in the choir. Colors: green with guilded moldings. Framed in a plush red with gold linings. 

Benches with a closed back and arched top with depressed areas. Colors: Light green and rust-colored.

Gallery with jutting beams. Broad tabled parapet. 

Harmonium contributed by Hans Holtedahl 1905. 

Church bell, Transferred from Fet Church. Inscribed on the top "Hat mich gegossen Frederich Hansen Meier 1691 Soli Deo Gloria" (Fr. H. Meier cast me. God alone has the glory.) In the middle, corpus Christian V's portrait medallion and laurel wreath and on the other side, his crown monogram and the year 1691. At the bottom the inscription "Friends in Christ with H. Mons Thiestis forsiun Anno 1691 offer thanks to God and praise the lord" Diameter 74cm Height 73cm. 

Ritual Containers Chalice, baptismal tray, plate - 42 special chalices and wine dispensers, plates.

Paramenter. Altercloth, white linen in lace crochet, made and presented by Olga Foss. The alter is in red plush covering. 

Chasubel from 1905, broad gold braid along the edges, a cross with a radiating wreath on the back. Small red woolen cross, bordered on the front with a restoration of the chasubel. 

Lighting. Alter candles plated, classical. -3 six-armed chandeliers of brass, presented by the municipality to the chapel's 50th anniversary. 2 two-armed brass lights in the choir. One brass arm at the pulpit. A reading light at the pulpit presented by Gansdalen mothers. 

Number boards, rectangular, black. 

4 bridal chairs, mahogany, single with tightly packed stays in the back. Blue velour. 
Flower vase presented by Gansdalen peasant women's foundation1955. 
Red coconut rugs.


Translated by Steven Mohn, December 1999


Updated January 1st 2000 by The Local History Resource Centre, Fet, NORWAY