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Vågå 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. The existing stave churches are concentrated on the upper valley regions of eastern Norway ( Østlandet ) ( Gudbrandsdalen , Numedal , Hallingdal , Valdres and Telemark ) and the inner ...
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.
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]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) ... Pages in category "Stave churches in Norway"
Urnes Stave Church (Norwegian: Urnes stavkyrkje) is a 12th-century stave church at Ornes, along the Lustrafjorden in the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway.. The church sits on the eastern side of the fjord, directly across the fjord from the village of Solvorn and about five kilometres (3 mi) east of the village of Hafslo.
Þórarinsstaðir archaeological excavation in Seyðisfjörður, east Iceland (post church which predates stave church). [1] Norway. Atrå stave church; Aurland Stave church (Parts of it on display at Bergen Museum.) Austad stave church; Bagn stave church, Sør-Aurdal municipality, Norway (Portal on display at (?) in Copenhagen. There are still ...
The wooden, triple nave stave church was built in a long church design around the year 1200 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. The church seats about 180 people. [1] [2] The church is one of the 28 surviving stave churches in Norway and it is considered to be the largest of the stave churches. [3]
Gol Stave Church (Norwegian: Gol stavkirke) is a 12th century stave church originally from Gol in the traditional region of Hallingdal in Buskerud county, Norway. The reconstructed church is now a museum and is now located in the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History at Bygdøy in Oslo , Norway.