Stedje Church


Stedje Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sogndalsfjøra, near the shore of the Sogndalsfjorden. It is the church for the Stedje parish which is part of the Sogn prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The red, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1867 using designs by the architect Christian Christie. The church seats about 400 people.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1327, but it was not new that year. The church in 1327 was a stave church that may have been built in the 1180s. In 1607, the choir of the stave church was torn down and rebuilt with a timber-framed room. The nave of the old stave church measured.
In 1867, the old church was torn down because it was too small for the parish and a new timber-framed church was constructed on the same site. The new building was consecrated on 17 December 1867 by the Bishop Peter Hersleb Graah Birkeland.

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