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Borgund stave church (Borgund stavkyrkje) is a stave church located in Lærdal, Norway. This is also Norway's best preserved stave church. The church was probably built in the end of the 12th century, and has not changed structure or had a major reconstruction since that date. The church site shows evidence of a previous building, which can point to an earlier church or perhaps an old pagan temple that had been taken into use as a church. The interior of the church, except for the pulpit and the altarpiece, is mainly free from the post-Reformation decorations seen in most other stave churches. An authentic medieval square shaped baptismal font made of soapstone is still a part of the interior. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x3072, 1439 KB) Picture taken by myself (Glaurung) in July 2005 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Borgund stave church Metadata This file contains additional information...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x3072, 1439 KB) Picture taken by myself (Glaurung) in July 2005 Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Borgund stave church Metadata This file contains additional information...
Urnes stave church in Luster, listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO A stave church is a medieval wooden church with a post and beam construction related to timber framing. ...
County Sogn og Fjordane Landscape Sogn Municipality NO-1422 Administrative centre Lærdal Mayor (2005) Knut O. Aarethun (Ap) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 66 1,342 km² 1,278 km² 0. ...
(11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...
The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ...
The church is a triple nave stave church of the so-called Borgund-type.
It was not always easy to follow the preaching in earlier days either. Several runic inscriptions are found on the walls of the church, one reads: Tor wrote these runes in the evening at the St. Olav’s Mass.
Borgund stave church is owned by Fortidsminneforeningen (The Society for the Preservation of Norwegian Ancient Monuments).
Lower Right-Hand Corner is the famous Kirke or church as of 2004. (Taken and submitted by "URl77820")
There is a replica of the Borgund stave church in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. Rapid City is a city located in Pennington County, South Dakota, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 59,607. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Area Ranked 17th - Total 77,163 sq mi (199,905 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 380 miles (610 km) - % water 1. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1632x1232, 430 KB) Headline text This is a picture I took of the ancient Stave Kirke or church File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1632x1232, 430 KB) Headline text This is a picture I took of the ancient Stave Kirke or church File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
External links
- Borgund stave church in Stavkirke.org — in Norwegian
- Borgund stave church in Fortidsminneforeningen — in English
- Fortidsminneforeninga's stave church pages — in Norwegian (there are also English and German pages)
- Replica in Rapid City
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