Bygstad is a village in

Sunnfjord Municipality Sunnfjord is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Førde. Other villages in the municipality include Naustdal, Sande, V ...

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The village is located on the northern shore of the Dalsfjorden, about northwest of the innermost part of the fjord. The municipal center, Sande, is about to the southeast of Bygstad and

Førde Airport, Bringeland Førde is a former municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It was located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative center was the town of Førde which in 2016 had 10,255 inhabitants. Other villages in Førd ...

sits about east of the village. The village is an old church site where there once was a

stave church A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts a ...

here dating back to the 13th century. The present

Bygstad Church Bygstad Church ( no, Bygstad kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sunnfjord Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bygstad. It one of the four churches for the Gaular parish which is part of the S ...

was built in 1845 and it serves the western part of the municipality of Gaular.

Notable residents

Jenny Ellaug Følling Jenny Ellaug Følling (born 19 March 1962) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Sogn og Fjordane in 2013. As Liv Signe Navarsete from Sogn og Fjordane was a ...

, a Norwegian politician *

Kristian Lien Kristian Lien (10 May 1915 – 20 May 1996) was a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He grew up in Bergen, but settled at Bygstad. He served as mayor of Gaular municipality, and was a member of Sogn og Fjordane county cou ...

, a Norwegian politician

References

Villages in Vestland Sunnfjord {{Vestland-geo-stub