The church in Granvin is a long wooden church dating from 1726. It replaces the Granvin Stave church which had to be demolished due to decay in the 1720s. The first time Granvinskyrkja is mentioned in written sources is in 1306.
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The Ulvik church, inaugurated in 1859, is well preserved in its original form on the outside, except for the sacristy, which is a later construction. Inside, there is a three-part altarpiece in Gothic Revival style, a plaque commemorating Thomas Samuelsen Uro, the parish priest of Ulvik from 1652 to 1667, with his wife and eight children. The painting dates from 1650 and was painted by Elias Fiigenschaug.
Raundalen church is a long church from 1921, designed by Haldor Larsen Børve. It has elements of Stave church style. The Raundalen cemetery was opened in 1905. The bell tower next to the church is probably from the same period and therefore older than the church.
The Utne church, designed by Peter Blix, was inaugurated in 1895 and is marked by a neo-romanesque and national romantic architecture. The colours of the interior are the original 1895, but part of the church was repainted during a restoration in 1953. In the church, there is also a seventeenth-century painting depicting the martyrdom of John. It was donated to the church in 1990.
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