St. Mary's Church

The Church of the Cross is a medieval stone church originally consisting of a nave with a choir, built around 1150. The sacristy was probably built in the High or Low Middle Ages, and in the 18th and 19th centuries the church was extensively rebuilt, so that the church today has a cruciform shape. In 1896, the sacristy was decorated as a chapel, and much of the present church interior dates from the same period. The interior is particularly marked by the renovation of 1896-97.

The new church in Bergen was built in 1622, but the present appearance is mainly due to the reconstruction in 1756. The new church is built of stone in a mixture of baroque and rococo style. The interior bears the mark of the reconstruction period of the 1950s, which took place after the wartime destruction in 1944.

Bergen Cathedral is a long stone church from the second half of the 13th century. The church was built for the Franciscans and is the only one of the mendicant monks' churches in Norway that is still preserved. The church was extensively restored after the city fire of 1702, and in the late 19th century it was extensively modified under the direction of the architect Peter Blix. Many medieval stone details were renewed and the rococo interiors were removed. Today, the church has a two-aisled church hall and an east choir. In the 17th century, the church was given a tower to the west and a nave to the south. The interior was completely neo-Gothic from the 1880s.