Hotel Bethel

In 1876, they made contact with Ninna and Andreas Wollesen, a married couple who, for several years, had been involved in missionary work among sailors in New York City before being sent to Copenhagen by an organization to continue their activity there.

Two years later, it was replaced by an old ship, Bethel, which was berthed at the end of the Nyhavn canal.

The idea of operating reading rooms and hostels for seamen had then spread to other Danish ports and the organization Indenlandsk Sømandsmission was founded on 28 March 1905.

[1] The name Bethel originally referred to a ship that was located in the Nyhavn canal from the 1880s until it sank in 1906.

The church is located in a 200 years old storage building in the yard, previously used for overseas trading.