- Discover everything you need to know about Norwegian Church Arts Centre, Cardiff including history, facts, how to get there and the best time to visit.
- This year we are 150 years old. Second oldest Norwegian Church outside of Norway. Second oldest building still in use in Cardiff Bay.
- His family worshipped at the Norwegian Church when it was in its original location in the Cardiff Docks and Dahl and his siblings were all baptised there.
- Formerly a Church for Norwegian Sailors, the iconic building dates back to the industrial revolution, when Cardiff Docks was the world’s greatest exporter of coal.
- The Norwegian Church Arts Centre is a point of cultural and historical interest located in Cardiff Bay, Wales. It was a Lutheran Church, consecrated in 1868.
- The Norwegian Seamen’s Mission is located in the basement of the church and is a great place to learn more about the history of the Norwegian Church in Cardiff.
- Roald Dahl, the author, was the Trust’s first President, as a Cardiff-Norwegian himself. In 1987 the old church was dismantled and stored for re-assembly.
- The Norwegian Church was once the heart of the Norwegian community in Cardiff, which Roald Dahl and his family belonged to.
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- The Norwegian church was built to serve the large number of sailors that came through the port of Cardiff in the port’s heyday.