The Geilo Cultural Church is a brick church built in 2010, designed by the architects Jorunn Westad Brusletto and Marianne Laa. By "cultural church" is meant that the building is also open to various cultural events that do not necessarily have a Christian profile.
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Geilo Church is a wooden church from 1890, designed by architect J.W. Nordan. The church hall is rectangular with lower and narrower choirs. The walls are panelled and painted.
The old church of Hol has been rebuilt and altered several times. The sacristy to the east of the choir is the oldest part of the church. Originally, the whole church was a Stave church. The first change was the wooden extension that now forms the narrower western part of the church nave, probably from the 16th century. In 1697 the church was given a new, larger choir and apse, but in 1798-99 these parts of the building, including the part of the nave built in a moat, were demolished.
Hovet church is a long church from 1910. The interior was restored according to plans by Arnstein Arneberg in 1960, and the porch was expanded in 1994.
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