Gol Stave Church

Oslo
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Gol Stave Church is a stave church from Gol in the traditional Hallingdal district in Buskerud county, Norway. The reconstructed church is now a museum and currently resides in the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History in Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway.

Monday 11:00–17:00 Tuesday 11:00–17:00 Wednesday 11:00–17:00 Thursday 11:00–17:00 Friday 11:00–17:00 Saturday 11:00–17:00 Sunday 11:00–17:00
 

The interior assembly of the church has many similarities with the Hegge Stave Church in Valdres, and it was assumed that the same contractor was responsible for both. There was a passage around the churches and choirs, which probably survived in its original form until the 17th century. The walls and apse of the choir have remnants of murals from the Flesberg Stave Church (painted later) from 1652 (the year is pictured on the wall) by the same painter (the inscription of the book) who decorated the Torpo Stave Church in 1648. , Rollag Stave Church 1653, Veggli Stave Church and Nore Stave Church 1655 and Uvdal Stave Church1656. The depiction of the Last Supper of the apse is by the same painter, but the reconstruction of the walls of the apse is uncertain. The roof rider was renovated in 1694. At the same time, a ceiling was built and two windows were placed on the south wall of the middle room during the same period. Around 1730, a gallery was built on the north side. After some time, the choir and apse were demolished and a new half-timbered choir was erected. In the new choir, however, old materials were reused for the ceiling so that the murals survived and could be restored in connection with the movement.

In 1802-1803, the church was enlarged to "a church that used to be too small for such a large number of commons (it has strangely become larger) so that it once had as many listeners as before". The aisles around the church were demolished and new exterior walls of tablecloth trusses were erected approximately where the aisle walls had been. A salt-roofed porch was built in front of the western portal. The church later took on the same look as when JN Prahm designed it in 1846.

Address

Museumsveien 10, 0287 Oslo, Norway

Contact Info

47 22 12 37 00