Christ the Savior Church, known in Norwegian as Vår Frelsers ortodokse kirke, was originally a Lutheran church but was later leased long-term to the Orthodox Olginsky parish of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is consecrated in honor of the Resurrection of Christ and Saint Princess Olga. The church is located on the grounds of a historic memorial cemetery in the center of Oslo, Norway.
Built in 1864, the church served the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway as a cemetery church until the necropolis was closed in 1952. The altar fresco "The Risen Christ" was created by the famous Norwegian artist Per Vigeland.
In 2003, the church was transferred to the Resurrection-Olginsky parish of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was consecrated on June 13, 2004, by Metropolitan Cyril (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad in the presence of the Lutheran Bishop of Oslo Gunnar Stålsett, the Russian Ambassador to Norway Alexander Panov, the German Ambassador Horst Winkelmann, and other officials. Since 2003, the rector of the church has been Archimandrite Clement (Hukhtamäki), who became an archimandrite in 2017.
In 2008 and 2010, Georgian icon painter Gurgen Chukhua created icons for the iconostasis of the left chapel of the church. Several icons were also painted by Finnish icon painter Mari Zabishnaya.
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