The church in Vestfossen dates from 2010. On 1 January 1997, Vestfossen became a separate parish. This parish did not have a church, only the Vestfossen Chapel, which served as a parish church. This was built as a house of prayer in 1863 and consecrated as a chapel in 1902. The municipality of Øvre Eiker decided in the same year that a new church should be built.
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The Haug church was built in the Middle Ages, but the remains of the medieval church are rare. The original nave and choir were demolished and a new choir and a longer brick nave were built in 1861-62, according to the drawings of the architect Wilhelm Hanstein. Most of the interior of the Haug church was lost in a fire in 1818, except for the altarpiece and some furniture.
The Fiskum church was completed in 1866, according to drawings by Heinrich Ernst Schirmer. The church burned down on 11 January 1902 and a new building was completed in 1903 by the architect Jørgen Haslef Berner according to Schirmer's drawings.
The old church of Fiskum is a medieval stone church with a short rectangular nave and a lower and narrower choir at the right end. On the north side of the choir, a sacristy was built in brick, probably in the 18th century, and in front of the church's entrance portal on the west side, there is a porch. The church has a gabled roof with a turret. The old church in Fiskum was to be demolished when the new church was built in 1866, but the inhabitants of the village, with the priest H. Kiær as the figurehead, opposed it.
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