Undredal Stave Church | |
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Undredal stavkyrkje | |
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60°57′03″N 7°06′08″E / 60.9508814418°N 7.102354556°E | |
Location | Aurland Municipality, Vestland |
Country | Norway |
Denomination | Church of Norway |
Previous denomination | Catholic Church |
Churchmanship | Evangelical Lutheran |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Founded | c. 1147 |
Consecrated | c. 1147 |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Architectural type | Stave church |
Completed | c. 1147 |
Specifications | |
Capacity | 40 |
Materials | Wood |
Administration | |
Diocese | Bjørgvin bispedømme |
Deanery | Sogn prosti |
Parish | Undredal |
Type | Church |
Status | Automatically protected |
ID | 85725 |
Undredal Stave Church (Norwegian: Undredal stavkyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Aurland Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Undredal, on the shore of the Aurlandsfjorden. It is the church for the Undredal parish which is part of the Sogn prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in a stave church style around the year 1147.[1][2]
The church is only 12 by 4 metres (39 by 13 ft) and has only 40 seats, making it the smallest stave church still in use in all of Scandinavia. The parish only includes one small, rather isolated valley, with only 116 parishioners, making it the second smallest parish in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.[3]