Trefoldighetskirken
Octagonal neo-Gothic church of bare red brick, crowned by a copper dome and ribbed vaults.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Trefoldighetskirken in Oslo follows Alexis de Chateauneuf, the Hamburg architect who won Norway's first architecture competition in eighteen forty-nine, and the young stone carver who came north to help him build it. It touches on a marriage that tied a German to Christiania and on the hands that shaped the columns. Listen standing beneath the dome, where you can see the vaults and capitals it describes.
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