Vågå Church
The church Vågå , norw. Vågå kyrkje, is a Norwegian church in Vågåmo , community Vågå , in Fylke Innlandet . The church is the successor to a stave church and elements of the old church have been reused. Although it is sometimes called a stave church, scientifically speaking it is not a stave church as it was demolished in the 17th century and redesigned without the typical mast construction. It is still used as the main church by the community.
history
The original church is believed to date from AD 1100 to 1130, and probably had no internal masts and neither the apse nor the portico typical of stave churches.
In 1627 the church was demolished and redesigned by master builder Werner Olson . But he used the old carved portals (west and south portals). In 1630 a Dutch Renaissance pulpit was installed. In 1674 Johannes Larssen Skråstad from Vang made the altar, which was painted by Peder Jonsson in 1677 .
At the end of the 17th century, Henning Munch , the then priest of Vågå, painted the picture of the Fall on the north wall of the choir . A bell tower was built in the 17th or 18th century. The bells date from the 19th century. In 1914, the church was restored by the architect Heinrich Jürgensen .
altar
pulpit
See also
literature
- Eva Valebrokk and Thomas Thiis-Evensen: Norwegian stave churches / architecture, history and traditions , Boksenteret A / S, Milan 1993, ISBN 82-7683-012-9
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Coordinates: 61 ° 52 ′ 34 " N , 9 ° 5 ′ 48" E