Octagonal churches in Norway
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An octagonal church has an octagonal architectural plan. The exterior and the interior may be shaped as eight-sided polygon with approximately equal sides or only the nave is eight-sided supplemented
Hospitalskirken in Trondheim - the oldest octagonal church in Norway. Credit: Mahlum
Wilhelm von Hanno: Trinity Church with its octagonal dome
Klæbu Church (1790) designed by Lars Forsæth.
Interior of Flekkefjord Church
Churches in Norway
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Church building in Norway began when Christianity was established there around the year 1000. The first buildings may have been post churches erected in the 10th or 11th century, but the evidence is i
Octagonal churches in Norway
…replaced by log churches. While in most of Europe, only masonry churches were built, wood construction still dominated in Norway. During the 1600s, the cruciform floor plan tended to replace the traditional simple rectangular "long church". In the cruciform church, the view to the altar is partly obstructed by…
Nidaros Cathedral (11th century) is one of the largest and oldest in Norway.
Pulpit-altar and organ, Kongsberg Church.
The Anglican St. Edmund's Church neo-gothic (1884)
Old Moster Church, possibly the oldest in Norway, site of the Moster Thing where Christianity was made law of the land (around 1024).