Hasvik Church is an octagonal church built in 1955. It replaced the old church from 1861, which was burnt down in 1944 during the Second World War. The 1861 church was a long wooden church and replaced a church that was moved from Hasvåg in 1712.
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Øksfjord church is a brick long church from 1954. The architect for the church was Hans Magnus, who in the following decades designed several other churches in northern Norway and on Svalbard.
Bergsfjord church, located in the small, isolated village of Bergsfjord, is a wooden built in 1951. The architect of the church is Harald Sunde (T.Øren).
The Loppa church site has known three generations of wooden churches, the last church of 1747 having been burnt down in 1944. The present church is a long brick church built in 1953, based on drawings by Johan Lindstrøm and Hans Magnus. The interior is characterized by the modernism of the 1930s but has retained some of the furniture from the old churches.
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