The Hessdalen church was built in the transition period between the 1930s and 1940s and was only officially consecrated in 1949. Part of the inventory was taken from the former Stave church, which was demolished after the completion of the present church in Ålen. It consists of the altarpiece from the 17th century and the pulpit from 1705.
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Ålen Church is a long church dating from 1881 in Holtålen municipality in Trøndelag county. The present church has replaced a stave church from the Middle Ages. Parts of the stave church were used when the neighbouring Haltdalen stave church was rebuilt in a museum in Trondheim at the end of the 1880s. The west portal, leaf and west wall of the Haltdalen Stave church come from the Ålen Stave church.
Haltdalen Stave Church is a church dating back to 1170, which is now part of Trøndelag Folkemuseum in Trondheim. The church served as a model for the Heimaey stave church built in Iceland in 2000 for the millennium of the first church built there.
The Haltdalen church is a long wooden church dating from 1881. The church replaced the stave church in Haltdalen dating from 1170. The stave church had been demolished and moved to Trondheim, where it is now in the folk museum in Trøndelag.
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