Vestre Aker church

Vestre Aker Church is a Neo-Gothic parish church located at Ullevålsveien 117 on Kalvehaugen in Oslo, serving the parish of Bakkehaugen, Majorstuen and Vestre Aker and functioning as the deanery seat for Vestre Aker prosti. Consecrated on 12 December 1855 (originally named Aker Church, renamed in 1861), the church was designed by architect Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and after a restoration in 1969 now offers around 500 seats. Inside you find a pulpit — originally from Oslo Cathedral — designed by Alexis de Chateauneuf, stained-glass windows made by Bernhard Greve (installed in 1939 and 1955), and an organ with 27 voices. The church stands beside a cemetery inaugurated in 1855 and a parish house built in 1983, and is protected as a cultural heritage monument under the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage.