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Garmo Stave Church in Stavkirke.org
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Garmo Stave Church () is 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 ar ...
situated at the Maihaugen museum at Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munic ...
in Innlandet
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, Norway
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. Garmo Stave Church at Maihaugen is one of the most visited stave churches in Norway.
Description
Garmo Stave Church originally came from the village of Garmo in Lom in the formerOppland
Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The c ...
county. It was built circa 1150 on the site of a previous church believed to have been built in 1021 by a Viking chieftain. In 1730, it was expanded into a cruciform church in the timber.
After Garmo Church (''Garmo kyrkje'') was built as the new parish church in 1879, the stave church was demolished and the materials sold at auction. In 1882, the church was sold to Anders Sandvig, who brought it to Lillehammer in sections. It was re-erected at Maihaugen in 1920–1921. It is unclear how much of the original materials were used in the reconstruction. The church consists largely of 17th and 18th century inventory. Apart from the claystone baptismal font from the 1100s, all the furnishings in the Garmo Stave Church come from other churches. The pulpit made in 1738 came from Romsdalen
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. The altarpiece from 1695 came from Lillehammer
Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munic ...
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See also
* ''The Parson's Widow
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Plot
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References
Further reading
* Leif Anker (2005) ''The Norwegian Stave Churches'' (Oslo: Arfo Forlag) * Roar Hauglid (1970) ''Norwegian Stave Churches'' (Oslo: Dreyers Forlag)External links
Garmo Stave Church in Stavkirke.org
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