Kulturkirken Jakob [SEP] architect
Kulturkirken Jakob
Kulturkirken Jakob (in English St. James Church of Culture) is a church in Oslo, Norway, designed by architect Georg Andreas Bull and built in 1880. The original name of the Church was St James's Church or Jakobs kirke.
The church is named after the Apostle James (the Great), in Norwegian language: Apostelen Jakob.
The altarpiece of the building year by Eilif Peterssen and shows the adoring shepherds.
In the porch hangs a relief of the Archangel Michael.
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(2004). The record was followed up by a series of productions with Rim Banna from Palestine and Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat from Iran. Hillestad has together with Mahsa Vahdat translated a selection of 100 poems of the Persian poet Hafez into Norwegian. (I vinens speil, 2010).
In 2000 his company established the venue Kulturkirken Jakob in central Oslo. It is an old neo gothic church from 1880, which had been closed as a parish church since 1985. Under the leadership of Hillestad it has been developed into