Vistdal Church


Vistdal Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Myklebostad. It is the church for the Vistdal parish which is part of the Indre Romsdal prosti in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1869 using plans by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. The church seats about 270 people.

History

During the middle ages, there was a stave church in the Vistdal valley, about south of Myklebostad. The earliest known records of that church date back to 1494, but there are records of the parish that date back to 1432.
In 1660, a new church was built at Myklebostad, a few kilometers north of the existing church. The new cruciform church replaced the old church, but the old church was not torn down until about 1668. Around the middle of the 1800s, the church was deemed to be too small for the parish.
In 1869, a new church was built to replace the older one. The new church was built just outside the existing cemetery to the south of the old church.