Sct. Clemens Church in Randers was built in the 1960s to the amazing design by Inger and Johannes Exner as one of the first modern churches to be built in the wave of the building boom of that period.

   The sloping plot was a gift to the parish that had been established in 1952 in a temporary church building. In the relatively poor years after the war it was up to the parishioners to collect a lot of the money for the new building, and one of the more successful ways was by staging church dramas.

By 1960 an architectural competition was run, and the extremely daring, but also the most beautiful project by the Exners won.

   The church is built like a ship’s stern setting out into the world, and with the southern wall behind the altar being windows that reveal God’s creation in the view across the park and valley towards the river and the hills behind – it is beautiful and spiritual in all seasons.

   The church is very simple in its style - yellow bricks and Oregon pine. An elegant altar cross in silver and enamel was made by the architect’s brother, Bent Exner, a renowned silver smith. 

   The organ has 23 pipes and was built by Frobenious.

   The christening font is a medieval font, probably stemming from one of the churches in Randers that were destroyed during the Reformation. It had done service for hundreds of years on a farm as a water trough for cattle, so when the church building had started the farmer came forward and offered his ‘cattle trough’ to be our new  christening font.

   There has always been a very lively and active church life with well-attended services and  with music and drama playing very important roles, not least for the children and young people whose tradition for staging musicals has taken them far and wide with their productions.

   The outreach in the church has been strong both towards the local community and in recent years towards the immigrants in Randers, and in an international context with links to England, Jerusalem and South Africa.     

   In the 1980s a church hall and other rooms were built directly on to the church, and twenty years later new offices for the ministers and other staff members were added.

   Today the parish has about 9000 parishioners, 3 clergy, 2 organists, 2 church secretaries, 2 church wardens and 1 catechist and an active church council of 14 members, who have a lot of energy and initiative and are constantly concerned with being a church for today with firm roots in the ancient gospel of Christ.

Telephone no. 45 + 87 12 41 10

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Head of Church Council: Hanna Broadbridge

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