Borgund Stave Church

Borgund Stave Church
Borgund stavkyrkje
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61°02′50″N 7°48′44″E / 61.0472°N 07.8122°E / 61.0472; 07.8122
Location	Lærdal Municipality, Vestland
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Previous denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
Website	www.stavechurch.com/en/borgund
History
Status	Former parish church
Founded	c. 1200
Architecture
Functional status	Museum
Architectural type	Stave church
Completed	c. 1200
Closed	1868
Specifications
Materials	Wood
Administration
Diocese	Bjørgvin
Deanery	Sogn prosti
Parish	Lærdal
Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site
Type	Church
Status	Automatically listed
ID	83933

Borgund Stave Church (Norwegian: Borgund stavkyrkje) is a former parish church initially of the Catholic Church and later the Church of Norway in Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It was built around the year 1200 as the village church of Borgund, and belonged to Lærdal parish (part of the Sogn prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin) until 1868, when its religious functions were transferred to a "new" Borgund Church, which was built nearby. The old church was restored, conserved and turned into a museum. It is funded and run by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, and is classified as a triple-nave stave church of the Sogn-type. Its grounds contain Norway's sole surviving stave-built free-standing bell tower.^[1][2]