Geiranger Church


Geiranger Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Stranda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Geiranger, and the end of the famous Geirangerfjorden. It is the church for the Geiranger parish which is part of the Nordre Sunnmøre prosti in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in an octagonal style in 1842 by the architect Hans Klipe. The church seats about 165 people.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to 1589, but it was not brand new at that time. The first church was a stave church that was about wide and about long. That church was torn down in 1742. Two years later, a new cruciform church on the same site was completed. The second church lasted until it burned on 2 July 1841 when it was started on fire by a deaf-mute person who was a part of the parish. The third and current church was completed in 1842, about a year after the old church burned.

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