Ogna Church

Ogna Church was built in 1991 after the previous medieval stone church burnt down in a lightning strike. The church was rebuilt according to the designs of the architects Torsvik and Thesen in Sandnes. The choir section is newly built, as well as the parish hall, kitchen and offices. The medieval church was built in the middle of the 13th century and was a rectangular stone church.

About this building

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Key Features

  • Architecture
  • Monuments
  • Links to national heritage

Visitors information

  • Car park at the building
  • Accessible toilets in the building

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Varhaug Church

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Egersund kirke

The church in Egersund is a wooden church that would have been built in the 1620s, at a time when Egersund was an important shipping port for timber. The church has a cruciform plan but was originally built as a long church, with a chancel in the east. The transverse arms and the present chancel were built in the 1780s, as well as the turret over the west entrance and the sacristy on the south side of the chancel. At the same time, the church hall received galleries and vaulted ceilings.

Bakkebø Church

The Bakkebø Church in Eigersund was built in 1960 by the architects Arnstein Arneberg and Olav S. Platou. The concrete church has an altarpiece designed by Arneberg, sculpted by Sven Valevatn and painted by Anders Ragnvald Andersen.