Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

Three Aarhus free churches dissolved themselves in 2010 and started over with a single question - what should church look like now? The answer became Citykirken Aarhus, formed by the merger of Aarhus Pinsekirke (Pentecostal, founded 1928), the Apostolic Church in Aarhus (founded 1925) and Frikirken ved Runddelen (founded 1994), officially opening on 7 March 2010 in the former Pentecostal church building on Viborgvej in the Hasle district of Aarhus West. The building itself dates from 1988, when the growing Pentecostal congregation bought a factory site on Viborgvej and raised a purpose-built church. Today it houses one of Denmark's larger free churches, with roughly 500 adult members and several hundred more connected through children's and youth work, a gospel choir that has counted up to 300 singers, and a week-round programme of services, senior gatherings, teens and youth activities. In 2025 the congregation marked 150 combined years of free-church presence in Aarhus - 100 years since the first apostolic church, 35 in the current building and 15 as Citykirken. The church aims to work as an open weekday meeting place as much as a Sunday venue: the building includes a cafe and bookshop, is kept open in the daytime for anyone to study or hang out, and the congregation runs a substantial social outreach, most recently through the Familienetvaerket network supporting more than 200 vulnerable families. Sunday services run at 10:30, and the address on Viborgvej 173 is easily reached by bus from the city centre. The Pentecostal thread of the story began on 4 March 1928, when the Filadelfia congregation was founded with eight members, worshipping first in rented rooms in Banegaardsgade, then Skt. Clemens Straede, and for 46 years in J.M. Moerksgade before the move to the converted factory site on Viborgvej in 1988. Before the merger it had grown to around 500 members - then the second-largest Pentecostal church in Denmark. Citykirken is today a member of FrikirkeNet, the network of more than a hundred Danish free churches and organisations.