The Heimaey stave church is a wooden church located in Heimaey, Westman Islands. The church was made in 2000, as a gift from Norway to Iceland, on the occasion of the millennium of the first church built in Iceland by Olav Tryggvason in the year 1000.
Hlíðarendakirkja was built in 1898. The church is dedicated to Saint Þorlákur, a native of Hlíðarendur. It is abundantly illustrated and beautifully painted inside. The altarpiece is a replica of an altarpiece from a church in Denmark and dates from the time of the church's consecration.
Víkurkirkja is a church built between 1931 and 1934 when the population of Vík was growing and no longer wanted to travel to the church in the neighbouring village for every mass. It was consecrated by Jón Helgason, the bishop of Iceland at that time.
Strandarkirkja was built in 1888 and reconsecrated after renovations in 1968 and again in 1996. Many legends exist about the foundation of the first Strandarkirkja in the Middle Ages. Some say that the church was built by Gissur Teitsson, a famous Icelandic chieftain, others say that it was built with wood from the ship of a sailor lost at sea who had promised to donate all his wood for the construction of a church where it would be safely beached.
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