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The "Monolith" is a 17-metre-high stone pillar carved out of a stone monument that is part of the Vigeland plant in Frogner Park in Oslo. It is located on the "Monolith plateau" on the hill Tørtberg, a former smallholding under Frogner Manor. The boulder was taken out by engineer Anders Beer at the quarry at Hov by the Iddefjord in 1922, and later transported to Oslo on a barge. It was completed by Gustav Vigeland's stonemason's assistants, the Swede Nils Jönsson, the Dane Karl Kjær, and the Norwegian Ivar Broe in 1943. The column, which consists of 121 figures, stands at the highest point of the Vigeland plant and Frogner Park and is 17 meters high. The monumental sculpture is surrounded by a circular staircase with 36 granite figure groups arranged that row up the staircase. The monolith plateau is encircled by a low granite balustrade with eight double wrought iron gates. The name suggests that the sculpture is carved from a single block of granite. Vigeland's sundial stands between the Monolith and the Wheel of Life.
Oslo Cathedral — formerly Our Savior's Church — is the main church for the Church of Norway Diocese of Oslo, as well as the parish church for downtown Oslo. The present building dates from 1694 to 1697.
"The Fountain" is a fountain modelled as a monumental sculpture group in bronze by Gustav Vigeland and placed as one of the main units along the main axis of the Vigeland plant in Frogner Park in Oslo.
The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, is a showcase for the Nobel Peace Prize and the ideals it represents. The center is also an arena where culture and politics merge to promote involvement, debate and reflection around topics such as war, peace and conflict resolution. The center is located in Oslo, Norway at the City Hall Square (Rådhusplassen).
5. Frogner Park
Frogner Park is a public park in the central West End borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway. The park is historically part of Frogner Manor and is Oslo's largest park, open to the public at all times. It includes the manor house which is the seat of Oslo Museum, the nearby Henriette Wegner Pavilion, the Vigeland installation of sculptures created by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, Frogner Baths, Frogner stadion, Frognerparken Café, the restaurant Herregårdskroen and the largest collection of roses in the country with 14,000 plants of 150 species. Frogner Park is the most visited tourist attraction in Norway.
6. Henrik Ibsens grav;Familie Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and the most influential playwright of the 19th century, as well of one of the most influential playwrights in Western literature more generally. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and When We Dead Awaken. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.
7. Domus media
The University of Oslo is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the oldest university in Norway and consistently considered the country's leading university, one of the highest ranked universities in the Nordic countries and one of world's hundred highest ranked universities. Originally named the Royal Frederick University, the university was established in 1811 as the de facto Norwegian continuation of Denmark-Norway's common university, the University of Copenhagen, with which it shares many traditions. It was named for King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway, and received its current name in 1939. The university was commonly nicknamed "The Royal Frederick's" before the name change, and informally also referred to simply as Universitetet.
8. Monument to the victims of MS Scandinavian Star Disaster 1990
MS Scandinavian Star, originally named MS Massalia, was a car and passenger ferry built in France in 1971. The ship was set on fire on 7 April 1990, killing 159 people. The official investigation determined the fire had been caused by a convicted arsonist who died in the blaze. This finding has since been disputed.
9. Oslo Spektrum
Oslo Spektrum is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in east central Oslo, Norway, that opened in December 1990. It is currently owned and operated by Nova Spektrum, formerly Norges Varemesse. Oslo Spektrum is primarily known for hosting major events such as the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert, the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, and concerts by artists of national and international fame.
10. Oslo Stock Exchange
Oslo Stock Exchange is a stock exchange within the Nordic countries and offers Norway's only regulated markets for securities trading today. The stock exchange offers a full product range including equities, derivatives and fixed income instruments.
11. Oslo rådhus
Oslo City Hall is a municipal building in Oslo, the capital of Norway. It houses the city council, the city's administration and various other municipal organisations. The building as it stands today was constructed between 1931 and 1950, with an interruption during the Second World War. It was designed by architects Arnstein Arneberg and Magnus Poulsson. The building is located in the city center, in the northern part of the Pipervika neighbourhood, and it faces Oslofjord.
12. Johan Sverdrups (1816-1892)
Johan Sverdrup was a Norwegian politician from the Liberal Party. He was the first prime minister of Norway after the introduction of parliamentarism and served as the fourth prime minister of Norway. Sverdrup was prime minister from 1884 to 1889.
13. National Library
The National Library of Norway was established in 1989. Its principal task is "to preserve the past for the future". The library is located both in Oslo and in Mo i Rana. The building in Oslo was restored and reopened in 2005.
Wikipedia: National Library of Norway (EN), Website, Blog, Flickr, Facebook
14. Sankt Olav domkirke
St. Olav's Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo and the parish church of St. Olav's parish in Oslo, Norway. The cathedral has church services and masses in Norwegian and several other languages, including English and Polish.
15. King Haakon VII
The Haakon VII statue on the 7th of June square in Oslo was made by the sculptor Nils Aas and was unveiled on the 100th anniversary of King Haakon's birth, and is considered a major work of Norwegian sculpture in the post-war period. The relatively young sculptor Aas defeated several of his older colleagues in the prize competition for the task, and the competition thus took on the character of a generational change.
16. Vålerenga kirke
Vålerenga Church is a church located in Oslo, Norway. Vålerenga church stands in the middle of Vålerenga park in the neighborhood of Vålerenga. The church belongs to the parish of Vålerenga of the Oslo arch-deanery within the Diocese of Oslo of the Church of Norway.
17. Peer Gynt-parken
Peer Gynt Sculpture Park is a sculpture park located in Oslo, Norway. The sculpture park was created in honour of the Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen as a monumental presentation of one of his plays, Peer Gynt, act by act.
18. Sædfuck
Spermfuck is a graffiti painted under a concrete bridge that leads Utmarkveien over General Ruges vei at Bøler Metro station in Oslo. Sædfuck has long had cult status in Oslo, and has given its name to a punk band and has been printed on T-shirts. Spermfuck was originally painted in black, but is now red.
19. Havnepromenaden infotårn 4 Vika
The harbour promenade is an approx. 9 kilometre long, continuous promenade along the entire waterfront in central Oslo, from Alna's outlet in Grønlia in the east, through the centre of Oslo with Bjørvika, Akersneset and Pipervika and to the bottom of Frognerkilen. The promenade was adopted in 2008 as part of the fjord city project that is planned to last until 2030. The promenade has an average width of 20 meters, and is designed for bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Some parcels were built as a promenade before the project, while other sections will be built a few years into the future. Langkaia, west of Bjørvika vis-avis Operaen, which was opened in 2013, was the first parcel built as part of the Harbour Promenade. Sign and route marking of the Harbour Promenade was completed at the opening of the Harbour Promenade on 14 June 2015. The route is marked with various orange elements, including 14 orange containers of various sizes that serve as information points. The containers are illustrated with motifs from the cartoon Krüger & Krogh.
20. Tøyen manor
Tøyen Manor is one of the former large farms in Oslo. Today's farmhouse was built in 1679 and is probably Oslo's oldest standing timber building. The house is currently located in the Botanical Garden and belongs to the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo.
21. Trefoldighetskirken
Trinity Church, is a church in the Hammersborg neighborhood in central Oslo, Norway. Trinity Church is neighbor of the government buildings in Regjeringskvartalet. It is the parish church of the parish of Trinity, belonging to the Diocese of Oslo of the Church of Norway. It is one of the largest churches in Oslo. The church itself is in the raw red brick, while the vaults, arches and small columns have gray scale color. The nave is octagonal with a Greek cross superimposed, with the choir in the apse, shallow transept and rectangular entrance flanked by two slender, octagonal bell towers. A central dome rises above the church. Trinity Church is the largest church in Oslo and one of the largest of the many octagonal churches in Norway, but one of few octagonal churches constructed in red brick.
22. University Botanical Garden
The University Botanical Garden is Norway's oldest botanical garden. It was first established in 1814 and is administered by the University of Oslo. It is situated in the neighborhood of Tøyen in Oslo, Norway.
23. Museum of Cultural History
Museum of Cultural History is an association of museums subject to the University of Oslo, Norway. KHM was established in 1999 as Universitetets kulturhistoriske museum with the merging of the bodies Universitetets Oldsaksamling which housed a collection of ancient and medieval objects, Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset) at Bygdøy, the Coin Cabinet (Myntkabinettet) and Ethnographic Museum. In 2004 the name was changed to Kulturhistorisk museum.
24. Defence Musuem
The Armed Forces Museum of Norway is a museum located at Akershus Fortress in Oslo, Norway. Previously it was named Hærmuseet, The Army Museum. The museum consists of mostly army materiel. The Armed Forces Museum is the main museum sorting under the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum superstructure.
25. Kunstnernes hus
Kunstnernes Hus is an art gallery in Oslo, Norway. It is Norway's largest gallery under the direction of artists, and has served as a major center for exhibits of Norwegian and international contemporary art. It is also a prominent example of Functionalist architecture situated in Wergelandsveien 17, across the Royal palace park.
26. Kronprinzessin Märtha Park
Crown Princess Märtha's Square (City Hall Garden) is a park square along the west wall of Oslo City Hall, in Pipervika in central Oslo. The square is named after Crown Princess Märtha, Olav V's spouse, who died before he became king.
27. Akershus slottskirke
Akershus Castle Church (Garrison Church) is the main church of the Norwegian Armed Forces. The garrison chaplain is responsible for planning and coordinating church services and church actions. The church is located on the floor below Christian IV's hall at the castle.
28. Rudolf Nilsens plass
Rudolf Nilsens plass is a square in Tøyen in Oslo, surrounded by Vahls gate, Vahl school and Heimdalsgata, close to the Botanical Garden and Museum. The 8.2 acre square has been developed as a park and there is a ball court and an artificial turf field that is an artificial ice rink in the winter.
29. Kampen kirke
Kampen Church is a church in the neighborhood of Kampen in Oslo, Norway. The church was consecrated 29 November 1882. After a fire in Kampen in 1878, the plans for the reconstruction of the neighborhood included a new church. In 1880, the neighborhood was founded a new congregation, that was located elsewhere until the church was finished.
30. Carl III Johan
The "Karl Johan Monument" is an equestrian statue of the Swedish-Norwegian King Karl III Johan on the Palace Square in Oslo. The statue, which stands in front of the Royal Palace with a view towards Karl Johans gate, was made by Brynjulf Bergslien. It was unveiled on 7 September 1875, 57 years to the day after Karl Johan became crown of Nidaros Cathedral (1818).
31. Lids hus
The Botanical Museum was established in 1863 and moved into the current buildings (1913) at Tøyen in 1915. The initiative was taken by Professor of Botany Johan Nordal Fischer Wille and Professor and Rector Waldemar Christopher Brøgger; The latter also established the Geological Museum in 1917. The Botanical Museum was merged with the Botanical Garden in 1975.
32. Hydroparken
The Hydro Park is a park at Norsk Hydro's high-rise office building, known as the Hydro Building, at Solli plass in Oslo. The building was designed by Erling Viksjø and built in 1960. Viksjø connected with the landscape architects Grindaker and Gabrielsen who designed the park. The walls are made by the visual artist Odd Tandberg.
33. Det Norske Teatret
Det Norske Teatret is a theatre in Oslo. The theatre was founded in 1912, after an initiative from Hulda Garborg and Edvard Drabløs. It opened in 1913, touring with two plays, Ervingen by Ivar Aasen and Rationelt Fjøsstell by Hulda Garborg. Its first official performance was Ludvig Holberg's comedy Jeppe på berget, with Haakon VII of Norway and the prime minister of Norway among the spectators. Hulda Garborg was the first board manager, and Rasmus Rasmussen was the first theatre director. The theatre primarily performs plays written in or translated into Nynorsk.
34. Sagene kirke
Sagene Church is located in Oslo, Norway. The church is one of the most rugged and prominent in Oslo. The church was built in gothic revival style and it was consecrated in 1891. It was designed by architect Christian Fürst in neo-Gothic style. There are 600 seats.
35. Gamlebyen kirke
Gamlebyen Church is a private church, belonging to Oslo University Hospital and is also called Oslo Hospital's Church, located in the old town of Oslo, Norway. It is leased to the Diocese of Oslo of the Church of Norway and serves as the parish church for the Gamlebyen parish in Oslo. Up to 1925 it had the name Oslo Church, but when the city changed its name from Kristiania to Oslo, the church got the present name. The present church building is listed in 1796 partly on the foundations of the Franciscan monastery church built around 1290. The church is located at the foot of the north-facing slope Ekeberg, across the street from the Gamlebyen Cemetery. The chapel at the cemetery is abandoned as a burial chapel and leased to the Ethiopian community in Oslo. At funerals, the church itself is now used instead.
36. St. Hallvard kirke
St. Hallvard's Church and Monastery on Enerhaugen in Oslo, Norway, not far from the former medieval St. Hallvard's Cathedral, is the location of the largest current parish of the Catholic Church in Norway. The Catholic parish church for eastern Oslo, it was run by the Franciscans until 1 September 2008.
37. Børshagen
Børshagen is the park around Børsen in Kvadraturen in central Oslo. Under the name Grønningen, Børshagen was the first attempt at public planting in Norway and was laid out just after 1800, but was not completed until after the foundation of the Society for Christiania Byes vel in 1811. A few years later, the stock exchange building was erected on the site, but the remains of the park are still intact.
38. Zoology Museum
The Zoological Museum is located at the Botanical Garden in the Tøyen district of Oslo. The museum is part of the Natural History Museum, which also includes the Geological Museum close by and belongs to the University of Oslo (UiO). The Zoological Museum opened to the public on 2 February 1910. The exhibitions were completely revised in the 1970s.
39. Ole Høiland's Cave
Ole Pedersen Høiland was a Norwegian burglar and jail-breaker. He was arrested several times for theft; he became legendary for his many successful escapes, and for his spectacular robbery of Norges Bank.
40. Vestbanehallen
Oslo West Station or Oslo V, is a former railway station located in Vika in Oslo, Norway. It was the terminus of the Drammen Line between 1872 and 1980, until the Oslo Tunnel opened. The station remained in use until 1989, when all traffic was moved to the new Oslo Central Station. Until its closure it was the main station for trains on the Sørland Line, the Drammen Line and the Vestfold Line. There was no passenger rail connection to Oslo Ø, the eastern station that served the eastern lines and trains to Bergen. The only connection was the Oslo Port Line that went partially through some of the most trafficked streets in Oslo.
41. Hallénparken
Hallénparken is a park in the district of Grünerløkka, in Oslo, just south of ring 2. The part of the park that faces the intersection Christian Michelsen gate / Vogts gate is called Johan Sverdrups plass.
42. Kommandør T.I. Øgrims plass
Commander T.I. Øgrims plass is a square at Bernhard Getz' gate in central Oslo, in the block between St. Olavs gate and Keysers gate. Between the square and Akersgata there is a pedestrian passage with a portal through Akersgata 73. The square is located in the district of St. Hanshaugen.
43. Korskirken
The Holy Cross Church was a small medieval parish church for the northern part of the Old Town of Oslo, Norway. The ruin was rediscovered in 1922 and is now a part of Minneparken containing the ruins of the church and the larger St. Hallvard's Cathedral.
44. Bülow Hanssens plass
Bülow Hanssens plass is a park in Oslo. The square is located by Trondheimsveien in front of Sophies Minde in the Carl Berner district, just north of Carl Berners plass. The square is 4 acres in size and was established as a park in 1938. In the western part of the square is a paddling pond. On three sides, the square faces residential courtyards.
45. Niels Henrik Abel
The "Abel Monument" is a monumental sculpture modelled by Gustav Vigeland and erected in 1908 on Abelhaugen, a hill southwest of the Palace Park in Oslo, in memory of the mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829).
46. Clemenskirken
St. Clement's Church was one of the Roman Catholic parish churches of Oslo, Norway. Ruins of St. Clement's Church are now exposed and included as part of Middelalderparken in the inner city of Oslo (Gamlebyen). It was located between the former Klemetsallmenningen and Østre strede. It is south of the ruins of Oslo Kongsgård estate and St. Hallvard's Cathedral.
47. Livshjulet
"The Wheel of Life" is a sculpture by Gustav Vigeland in the Vigeland plant in Frogner Park in Oslo. The sculpture was modelled in 1933-1934 and erected in 1949. It depicts a rotating wreath of women, men and children and concludes the 850-metre-long main axis of the facility to the west. The wheel of life is a symbol of, among other things, the perishable earthly life and eternity.
48. Riddervolds plass
Riddervolds plass is a place in Oslo located at Briskeby in the district of Frogner. The square is located at the intersection of Skovveien and Briskebyveien. The square was named in 1891 after Minister of State, President of the Storting and Bishop Hans Riddervold, who lived from 1795 to 1876. On the square stands Gunnar Utsond's statue of J. S. Welhaven, erected in 1908.
49. Skillebekkparken
Olaf Bulls plass is a small park at Skillebekk in Oslo, until 2018 called Skillebekkparken. The park was established in the late 1860s and is named after the poet Olaf Bull (1883–1933). In the park stands the sculpture "The Wave" by Anders Svor in a fountain and a bust of Olaf Bull.
50. Gartnerløkka
Gartnerløkka is a park in steep terrain between Urtegata in Tøyen and Sørligata in Enerhaugen in Oslo. In the park stands Urtegata 50, a brick house from 1820, built by a gardener, later inhabited by Johan Siebke and his son Julius, who probably gave the area its name. The park was developed in 1985.
51. Det Andre Teatret
The Other Theatre (DAT) is a theatre located in Ivan Bjørndals gate 9, between Sagene and Torshov in Oslo. The theatre was opened in the autumn of 2011 by improvisers from Teater Liksom, which was then located in premises at Chateau Neuf in Oslo. Those who started the theatre were Nils Petter Mørland, Mats Eldøen, Tony Totino, Veslemøy Mørkrid, and others. The independent improv group Improtent has also been central to the operation of DAT.
52. Geology Museum
The Geological and Palaeontological Museum was established in 1917 and is part of the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo. The museum was created on the initiative of geology professor Waldemar Christopher Brøgger, and the public was given access to the exhibitions from 1920. When the museum's new building at Tøyen was started in 1911, it was 100 years after the mineral collection at the Mining Seminary in Kongsberg was transferred to the new university.
53. Middelalderparken
The Medieval Park is located in the borough of Gamle Oslo in Oslo, Norway. The park was opened in the year 2000 at Sørenga in what was once the southern part of the medieval city of Oslo. The park is located within an area which also included the Minneparken and Ladegården on the north side of Bispegata. Development in the area is prohibited due to ruins and cultural layers above and below ground.
54. Schandorffs plass
Schandorffs plass is a square in Hammersborg in Oslo, opened as a park on 21 September 2009. The facility was designed by landscape architects Østengen and Bergo AS. The square was previously called Schandorffs gate.
55. Ekebergrestauranten
Ekebergrestauranten is a restaurant and banquet facility in a hillside overlooking downtown Oslo, Norway. Ekebergparken Sculpture Park is the nearest neighbor. The restaurant has been owned by Christian Ringnes since 2005.
56. Sommerfrydhagen
Sommerfrydhagen is a park with a playground and universal accessibility at Tøyen in Oslo, specially adapted for the disabled. The name probably comes from the loop Sommerfryd, which in the 1800s was located where the park is located today.
57. Gamle rådhus
Gamle rådhus is a building with a long history in Oslo, Norway. It is one of the oldest buildings in the Norwegian capital. It was built as the first town hall in Christiania in 1641. The construction of the town hall got financial support by King Christian IV. The building has historically been used for many purposes. A restaurant was appointed in a side wing in 1856 and moved to the main house in 1925. From 1980 to 2010 a theatre museum was located in the side wing of the first floor. The Old Town Hall is listed and protected by law by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage.
58. Vålerenga park
Vålerenga Park is a park in Vålerenga in Oslo. The park is 32 acres in size and was developed in the years 1903-1916. Vålerenga church (1902) stands in the middle of the park. The park is bounded by Danmarks gate to the north, Hjaltlandsgata and Vålerenga school to the east, Hovedbanen to the south and Opplandsgata to the west. Under the park runs the Vålereng tunnel. The vicarage close to the church is the farmhouse from the former Vålerenga farm.
59. Minneparken
Minneparken is situated in Gamle Oslo adjacent to Oslo torg at Gamlebyen in Oslo, Norway. The park is bounded by St. Hallvards plass and Oslo gate in the west, Bispegata in the south, St. Halvards gate in the southeast, Egedes gate in the east and Arups gate in the north.
60. Villa Stenersen
Villa Stenersen in Oslo is drawn by architect Arne Korsmo for the financier, art collector and author Rolf Stenersen and his family in 1939. The house were intended to serve both as a residence and as a gallery for his large art collection, and is considered as one of the main works of architecture in the Norwegian functionalism style. It is also the only Norwegian member of Iconic Houses. At the moment, it is in the middle of a restoration process headed by Statsbygg, in collaboration with the National Gallery and the Stenersen family. The villa is operated by the National Gallery of Norway and is open to the public every Sunday during the summer half of the year.
61. Interkulturelt museum
The Intercultural Museum is located at Tøyenbekken 5 in Oslo, Norway. The Intercultural Museum is a migration museum, and is primarily concerned with the collection, preservation and dissemination of Norwegian immigration history. Since 2006, the Intercultural Museum has been part of the Oslo Museum. It is situated in the district of Grønland and housed in a former police station which was built in 1900–1902 under design by architect Balthazar Lange (1854-1937).
62. Sofienberg kirke
Sofienberg Church is located at Sofienberg in Oslo, Norway and is designed by the Danish-born architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. It was first known as Paulus Kirke but its name was changed to Petrus Kirke in 1892 and finally to Sofienberg Kirke in 1962. The church is surrounded by Sofienberg Park, where it was previously a cemetery. The church was consecrated in 1877 and seats approximately 500.
63. Slottskapellet
Slottskapellet is a chapel in the Royal Palace in Oslo, Norway. It is the scene of many events of the Norwegian royal family like the royal baptisms and confirmations, in addition to church concerts and chamber music concerts. Slottskapellet is used for worships for students as well, a tradition of more than a hundred years of history.
64. National Monument for War Victims 1940-45
The "National Monument for the Victims of War 1940-45", also referred to as the "National Monument at Akershus Fortress" or simply "The National Monument", is a monument in memory of Norwegian fallen during World War II. The war memorial was designed by Gunnar T. Janson. It was erected at Festningsplassen at Akershus Fortress in Oslo in 1970.
Wikipedia: «Nasjonalmonumentet for krigens ofre 1940-45» (NO)
65. Sommerfrydparken
Sommerfrydparken is a park in Oslo of approximately 3,000 square meters that was zoned as a public recreational area in 1999. It is located over the old railway track towards Vestbanen, between Ruseløkkveien and Munkedamsveien. The formal address is Munkedamsveien 37.
66. Sommerroparken
Sommerroparken, formerly known as Solliparken, is a small park between the streets of Sommerrogata and Henrik Ibsens Gate in the Frogner district of Oslo, Norway. It consists of a narrow grass-covered strip with park benches, ornaments, trees and bushes.
67. Eidsvolls plass
Eidsvolls plass is a square and park in Oslo, Norway, located west of the Parliament of Norway Building, south of Karl Johans gate and east of Studenterlunden and the National Theatre. It has been referred to as "the National Mall of Norway".
68. Sinsenparken
Sinsenparken is a park between Lørenveien road and the Gjøvik Line at Sinsen, in Oslo, Norway. The 21.2 acre park is used for recreational purposes. The area is bounded by 6 storey residential buildings on three sides, and has Sinsen Church framing the south. There is a leisure and recreation area for the community, which is used for exercise, dog walking, games, sunbathing, barbecuing, social gatherings and other recreation. The entire surface is covered with grass, and in the northeastern part of the park are some tall trees. In the park stands a memorial in remembrance of the 24 Sinsen residents who fell during World War II. The monument was unveiled by Alfred Seland in September 1949.
69. Basarene
Oslo Bazaars are located at Oslo Cathedral, along the streets Karl Johans gate and Dronningens gate in Oslo, Norway. The buildings of the bazaar constitute a continuous facility that encircles three sides of the quarter with Oslo Cathedral.
70. Baitun Nasr Mosque
Baitun Nasr Mosque, also known as the Furuset Mosque, is an Ahmadi Muslim mosque in Furuset in the borough of Alna, northeast of Oslo, Norway. The mosque is the largest in the country, and can accommodate up to 5,000 people. The mosque has one dome and one minaret on the south side and the complex is located near E6, the country's main north–south highway.
71. Medianfiguren
The median figure is a statue in zinc that is placed outside the Science Library in Oslo, in front of the Pythagorean Garden. It has stood in this place since the 1980s. In his left hand, the median figure holds a small figure of Athena with his helmet pushed backwards.
72. Høyesterett
The Supreme Court's building, formerly the Justice Building, is a building in central Oslo designed by Hans Jacob Sparre. The building is located on the Supreme Court Square and is the seat of the Supreme Court of Norway.
73. Etterstadparken
Etterstadparken is a park in the district of Gamle Oslo. It was built as the core of the residential area of Etterstad, which was built with free-standing low-rise blocks in a zigzag pattern in the 1940s and 50s. Large green areas between the buildings merge into the park. This formed a pattern for later satellite towns.
74. Madserud gård
Madserud farm is a former farm in the west of Oslo municipality. The farm was originally a smallholding under Søndre Skøyen and was named after a man called Mads, father of Niels Madsen, who once lived there. From 1812, the place belonged to merchant Jacob Erasmus Dybwad, who also owned Fredriksberg on the south side of the Frogner River. The middle part of the farmhouse was possibly erected sometime in the period 1852-74 by wholesaler Stener Rosenberg, in the late classical style with elements of the Neo-Renaissance. The later owner was Commander Fredrik Georg Wilhelm Sverdrup, who in 1890 extended the house with a built-in glass veranda to the east. From 1903 the farm was owned by Harald Løvenskiold. In 1913 he added the house to the west, so that it became symmetrical, and added the column section on the long side to the south. The architect for this was Herman Backer. This gave the house the shape it has today.
75. John Colletts plass
John Colletts plass is a place in Ullevål Garden City in the Nordre Aker district of Oslo. It is located where Sognsveien, Niels Henrik Abels vei, Prestegårdsveien and John Colletts allé meet. Until 1999, when the tram line was extended to Rikshospitalet, the terminus of the Ullevål hageby tram was located at this place, and the square still has the characteristic tram loop.
76. Brannvakten
The Fire Guard or Fire Guard is located in Karl Johans gate 11 by Oslo Cathedral and is built in connection with Basarane, which surrounds the area along the eastern part of the cathedral. The fire guard was erected in unplastered red brick in the neo-romantic style in the years 1854–1856. The architect was Christian H. Grosch who also designed Basarane.
77. Bjølsenfossen
With a drop of 16 meters, Bjølsenfossen is the highest waterfall in Akerselva in Oslo. It is located south of Treschow's bridge at Bjølsen, and is named after the farm Bjølsen. In the 1300s, Bjølsen mill was built by the waterfall. In the 1800s, the waterfall was important for industrial development in the area, and supplied Bjølsen Valsemølle with power, among other things. Valsemølla eventually became the largest flour producer in Norway. The waterfall is located inside Valsemølla's industrial area, so the general public does not normally get close to it.
78. Sinnataggen
The Angry Boy is a sculpture in the Vigeland installation in Frogner Park, Oslo. It depicts a small, angry boy and is considered Gustav Vigeland's most famous sculpture. The sculpture, cast in bronze, was likely modeled in 1928 and installed as one of 58 sculptures on the "Bridge" in the sculpture park in 1940.
79. Fossum kirke
Fossum Church is a church center at Stovner in Oslo, Norway. The church was designed by the architectural firm Anker & Hølaas and created by Selvaagbygg. The church was consecrated in September 1976. Fossum church has 200 seats in the nave and 400 in the aisles.
80. Litteraturhuset
The House of Literature is a national activity and cultural centre with a focus on literature and books. It was opened in 2007 and is located in the area behind the Royal Palace at the Palace Park in Oslo. The House of Literature is run by the House of Literature Foundation, which was established by the Fritt Ord Foundation.
81. American Lutheran Church, Oslo
American Lutheran Church (ALC) is located at Fritzners gate 15 in Frogner in Oslo. It is the parish church for the American Lutheran congregation in Oslo. As a denomination, it is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; however, its membership in Oslo extends beyond this. The church, which has 400 seats, was consecrated on October 11, 1964. It was designed by the American architectural firm Methri & Mattson.
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