In 2014 we visited the Heddal Stave Church in Telemark.
Imagine a wooden building standing for 700 years!
My talented daughter-in-law Cheryl took these photos of the magnificent building with its wonderful wood carvings.
You can read more about this stave church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heddal_Stave_Church
In addition a new special website is coming up for the Heddal Stave Church.
https://www.heddalstavkirke.no/
Something to look forward to!
As children, I remember my late father telling us that we should imagine a viking ship upside down and then it became a stave church. Perhaps so?
Here are some of my own photos from that visit.
Now in 2021 I did a very interesting course about the stave churches and their preservation on FutureLearn - a course I warmly recommend.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/norwegian-stave-churches
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