If this is Thursday it must be postcards, 496

 

 

 

 

 

Exterior, side view of Johanneskirken, Bergen, Norway, 1909

 

This week two different views of Johanneskirken, Bergen on postcards are being shared.  The card above is identified as an Eneberettiget & Mittet Co. and dated 1909 at the lower right corner.  Mittet & Co. was one of the major postcard publishers in Norway in the early 1900s.  The company name is sometimes written as Eneret & Mittet Co.

 

Below is a Normann postcard from 1951 that shows the front view of the same church.  It has “Normann” written at the lower right corner and the number 14/645 at the lower left corner.  Both cards were found pasted in one of Dick Thompson’s scrapbooks.

 

Exterior front view of Johanneskirken, Bergen, Norway, 1951

 

It is a red brick church built between 1891 and 1894 and is one of the five churches that form the Bergen Cathedral parish.  Herman Backer (1856-1932), architect, designed the cruciform, Gothic Revival style building that seats about 1250 people, making it the largest church in Bergen.  In 1924 ceiling frescos were completed by Hugo Lous Mohr (1889-1970 and in 1967 the original organ built by Schlag & Söhne of Wurttemberg, Germany was modernized.  The altar piece was designed by Marcus Grønvold in 1894 and shows Christ in prayer.  There are four stair towers and a carillon designed by Verein Bochum, in Bochum, Westphalia.  Johanneskirken was a parish church in Bergen from 1894 until 2002, at which time several of the urban churches combined to form the Bergen Cathedral parish.

 

The Interior views of the church are found on Wikipedia.org.

 

The interior

 By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82675180

 

 

 The organ

By Alfred Diem from Wien, Austria - 0906_Kreuzfahrt_Norwegen_1868Uploaded by Jorunn, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7393134 

 

 

 

 

For additional information, see:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John’s_Church,_Bergen