Hopen Church
Smøla, NO
The church in Hopen is a long church dating from 1892. The long church replaced an octagonal wooden church from 1749. At Christmas 1842, lightning struck and destroyed the tower and damaged the building "significantly". Due to lack of maintenance, the building from the 1880s was so dilapidated and "airy" that it could not be repaired. In 1890, the government gave permission to demolish the 1749 building and build a new one on the same plot.