Flåm Church

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1340, but the church was not new that year. The first church in Flåm was likely a wooden stave church that was located on the same site as the present-day church. By 1661, the church was described as being in miserable condition. The parish hired master builder Magne Essen to tear down the old stave church and to build a new one on the same site, reusing as much of the old materials as possible. The builder, however, did not do that. He built a new church about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the north in Fretheim, and he did not tear down the old church. Unfortunately, the new church was significantly damaged in a wind storm the following year in 1669. So then, in 1670, both churches (the medieval stave church and the new church) were torn down and the materials from the two churches were reused in the building of a new church on the site of the old stave church. The new church was a wooden long church with a rectangular nave that measured about 8.7 by 7.2 metres (29 ft × 24 ft) and a smaller, square chancel that measured about 5.4 by 5.4 metres (18 ft × 18 ft). There is a tower above the west end of the nave and then a small church porch on the west end of the building that measured about 3 by 3 metres (9.8 ft × 9.8 ft). In 1926, the tower and church porch were both rebuilt and the exterior siding was painted a dark brown.[3][4][5][6]

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  View of the church near the river in the Flåmsdalen valley
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  Another exterior view
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  Exterior view, including an outside storage building
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  Interior view of the altar area
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  Close up of wall art

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