page_title: Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Vor Frue Kirke (København). Picture by me on 27/2-2006.
context_page_description: The Church of Our Lady is the cathedral of Copenhagen. It is situated on Frue Plads public square in central Copenhagen, next to the historic main building of the University of Copenhagen.
  The present day version of the church was designed by the architect Christian Frederik Hansen in the neoclassical style and was completed in 1829.
context_section_description: The building measures 83 m in length and 33 m in width. The interior of the nave is 60 m long and over 25 m from floor to ceiling. With all galleries open, the church can seat more than 1100 people. The tower is 60 m high and houses the four church bells. Stormklokken weighs 4 tons and is the largest bell in Denmark. The smallest bell in the tower is used at morning service among other occasions. It is the oldest bell in the country, dating from 1490 and taken from the former Antvorskov Kloster in Slagelse.
  The pediment is decorated with bronzes of Jesus Christ and the Apostles. The interior is likewise decorated with the twelve apostles (one in front of each of the piers of the central nave), the Risen Christ displaying the wounds in his body (in a niche above the altar) and in front of the altar the baptismal font in the form of an angel holding a large scallop shell, all in Italian carrara marble. All of these sculptures were completed in Rome by the famous Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.
  In the aisles, a bronze bust of Bertel Thorvaldsen, modeled by Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1798–1868) is on display along with many portraits of bishops and deans.
caption: Statues by Bertel Thorvaldsen depicting Jesus Christ and his Apostles
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