Reformed Church Saas-Fee

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Coordinates: 46 ° 6 '27.1 "  N , 7 ° 55' 42.9"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and thirty-seven thousand eight hundred eighty-three  /  106343

Reformed Church in Saas-Fee
seen from the panorama bridge

The Reformed Church in Saas-Fee is a Protestant - Reformed church .

location

The church is located in the district of Am Biel on a rocky outcrop above the panorama bridge spanning the gorge .

History and equipment

The building with a gable roof and a ridge turret with a bell in the bell chamber belongs to the Reformed parish of Visp , which also includes the Matter and Saas valleys , and thus to the Evangelical Reformed church of the Valais .

The originally built by the British Colonial & Continental Church Society and therefore Anglican church, in which the first service was celebrated on July 13, 1890, was established in the early 1970s on the condition that the church as a sacred building and worship place with permanent hospitality for the English is preserved, transferred to the Reformed Church and consecrated on June 20, 1976. The Bern regional church and its aid associations, both the Bern aid association and that of the Bernese Oberland, provided financial support. The main initiator of the preservation of the church was the reformed pastor HJ Bäschlin , who privately acquired the church in 1975 for this purpose as a temporary arrangement.

Church use

In the reformed church of Saas-Fee, church services take place in the summer and winter seasons, which are held by pastors who are active in the spa pastoration for one to two weeks.

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