page_title: Ålesund
section_title: Churches
hierarchical_section_title: Ålesund / General information / Churches
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of Ålesund, Norway Español: Iglesia parroquial, Ålesund, Noruega This is a photo of a monument in Norway, number: 85958 in the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage database.
context_page_description: Ålesund is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrative centre of Ålesund Municipality, as well as the principal shipping town of the Sunnmøre district. The town is a sea port and is noted for its concentration of Art Nouveau architecture. Although sometimes internationally spelled by its older name Aalesund, this spelling is obsolete in Norwegian. However, the local football club Aalesunds FK still carries that spelling, having been founded before the official change.
  The 99-square-kilometre municipality is the 184th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Ålesund is the 13th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 66,258. The municipality's population density is 109.1 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 12.1% over the previous 10-year period.
context_section_description: The Church of Norway has twelve parishes (sokn) within the municipality of Ålesund. It is part of the Nordre Sunnmøre prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Møre. The seat of the deanery is at Ålesund Church.
caption: Ålesund Church
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