According to the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment, it was the first "preservation of a cultural
Neiden, Norway, a village in Sør-Varanger, Finnmark county, Norway
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Neiden Chapel, a chapel in the village of Neiden, Sør-Varanger, Finnmark county, Norway
There are several affiliate or mission communities in Bergen and Stavanger as well as a chapel in Bygstad and St. George's chapel at Neiden.
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In the 16th century a Russian missionary, St. Tryphon of Pechenga, evangalized some of the Sami population of Norway and built an Orthodox chapel along the Neiden River.
They currently live in and around the villages of Sevettijärvi, Keväjärvi, Nellim in the municipality of Inari, at several places in the Murmansk Oblast and in the village of Neiden in the municipality of Sør-Varanger.