/churches-in-norway/ All Things Norway, In English Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:48:51 +0000 hourly 1 /churches-in-norway/#comment-728849 Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:41:22 +0000 /?p=24231#comment-728849 And what about Harstadt church ?

]]> /churches-in-norway/#comment-719992 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:23:43 +0000 /?p=24231#comment-719992 Stordal kirke, the Rose Church, is worth a visit.

]]> /churches-in-norway/#comment-713757 Sat, 20 Apr 2019 17:26:44 +0000 /?p=24231#comment-713757 Visited just about every one except for the church in Stavanger but through an ancestry search learned that at one time the bishop of the church would have been my great, great grandfather. This was a nice presentation for Easter and thank you for doing so as I look forward each week to your mailings. My first visit to Norway was in 1969 and visiting Stave churches was a memorable occasion.

]]> /churches-in-norway/#comment-542316 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:12:18 +0000 /?p=24231#comment-542316 Mariakirken in Bergen the Church of the Hanseatics and the oldest Church in Bergen deerves a place in this collection

]]> /churches-in-norway/#comment-539911 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 06:27:03 +0000 /?p=24231#comment-539911 My family and I visited the Hopperstad stavkirkje near Røysane and Vikøyri last month (July 2018). What an incredible experience (and my first stave church up close). The intentionally charred and tarred wood, the unique smell within and from 20 feet away. Walking slowly through the gallery imagining the scene in the snow, or in any season 800 years ago. Earlier in our trip we had been marveling at the knowledge that some of our ancestors had lived in villages all around the eastern ends of the Sognefjord in the 1600s-1800s, but then it really blew us away to contemplate that even in those ancestors’ own time this church was an incredibly old survivor of an earlier age.

]]> /churches-in-norway/#comment-539863 Sun, 12 Aug 2018 11:35:59 +0000 /?p=24231#comment-539863 Can’t let this go by without slipping on an advert for my “local” church, which I think deserves to be on the list. But I’ll let TripAdvisor do the talking:

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