The beautiful churches of Denmark present exciting challenges for the lighting designer.

As places of worship, churches are of course primarily designed for specific religious tasks and ceremonies. But today’s churches have much more diverse agendas and must be able to acommodate a variety of activities, i.e. concerts, lectures, bazaars and much more. The light must perfectly match and support each occasions whilst being respectful of each church’s unique features and importance. Both as a landmark, a meeting point, a historic building and an exquisite piece of architecture, churches deserve the best lighting conditions.

Churches are also workplaces where many people undertake a number of different tasks: the priest, the church servant, the organist, the conductor of the choir a.s.o. all have different work areas, each demanding in its own way. In each case, the right lighting is a most important prerequisite for succesfully carrying out those tasks.

Church of Vanløse

Compared to most Danish churches, the Church of Vanløse from 1909 was built fairly recently.

The lighting project included the design of six large chandeliers, each incorperating three twelve edged shapes. These represent the twelve apostles and the trinity. The chandeliers are made with three different metal surfaces: burnished brass, brushed brass and brushed aluminium.

Trinitatis church

The Trinitatis Church  is located in central Copenhagen. The foundation stone for Trinitais church was laid July 7, 1637 and the building's West end integrates the famous Rundetårn tower, which has a spiraling ramp to the top. Rundetårn was completed in 1642.

The lighting design incorporates a variety of scenarios to acommodate a large number of different activities and the many highly appreciated concerts taking place in the church. Shifting between these lighting scenarios can be easily monitored on iPad.

A glass pendant, Quill, was designed specifically for the Trinitatis church.

Church of Holmen

The Holmen Church is located in central Copenhagen. First built as an anchor forge in 1563, it was converted into a naval church by Christian IV. It is famous for having hosted the wedding between Margrethe II of Denmark and Prince Henrik in 1967. It is the burial site of notabilities and contains artwork by, among others, Bertel Thorvaldsen and Karel van Mander.

The lighting project beautifully presents both the building as a whole, its sections and each detail. It gives this iconic church perfect light conditions when holding its many famous concerts. These include intimate performances as well as larger orchestras with soloists.

The light can easily be precicely adjusted to support the appropriate atmosphere for any ceremony or occation.

Photographs soon to come!