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Ulvik stave church (Parts of it on display at Bergen Museum.) Vågå stave church is sometimes referred to as a stave church, but is the result of extensive reconstruction with reuse of materials from the demolished stave church. Original stave church was constructed in 1150, and was converted to a cruciform church in 1626–28. Vangsnes stave ...
Fåvang Stave Church in Ringebu, Oppland – rebuilt in 1630 (two old churches rebuilt as one). Gol New Stave Church (replica), a replica erected in the 1990s at site in the community from which Gol Stave Church was relocated in the 1880s. Haltdalen Stave Church (replica), a copy of the old church at Sverresborg museum. Our Lady of Good Counsel ...
Borgund Stave Church in Borgund, Lærdal, is one of Norway's most visited stave churches. Heddal Stave Church, Notodden, the largest stave church in Norway. A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe.
In 1650, there were about 270 stave churches left in Norway, and in the next hundred years 136 of them disappeared. Around 1800 there were still 95 stave churches, while over 200 former stave churches were still known by name or written sources (according to Lorentz Dietrichson). From 1850 to 1885 32 stave churches were lost, but only Fantoft ...
Borgund Stave Church was bought by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments in 1877. The first guidebook in English for the stave church was published in 1898. From 2001, the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage has funded a program to research, restore, conserve and maintain stave churches. [23]
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Small Romanesque churches are plentiful and are generally in relatively unchanged condition. Large churches are rare and are much altered as at Aarhus Cathedral, Lund Cathedral and Roskilde Cathedral. [34] Norway has 25 wooden stave churches from this period, [34] making up all but three of the world's medieval wooden churches.
List of later stave churches and replicas This page was last edited on 8 February 2022, at 06:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...