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Photo: Stig Nygaard from Copenhagen, Denmark, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The last of several churches to occupy this site. Its gates suggest something grander within but it is very plain, though far from unpleasant. Wonderfully carved pew ends from an earlier building can now be seen in Torshavn Museum.
Saint Olav's Church is a medieval church in the village of Kirkjubøur in Streymoy, Faroe Islands. It was built before 1200, which makes it the oldest church of the Faroe Islands. Until the Reformation, it served as the seat of the Catholic bishop of the Faroe Islands.
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Never completed, its walls are being dried out for restoration as of February 2020. The cathedral, less roof and tower, was built when Kirkjubøur was the most important place in the islands. It's hardly surprising that it should have been overtaken by Torshavn with its better anchorage but quite astonishing that the cathedral could ever have progressed as far as it did in this tiny community.
A museum using part of a farmhouse, with the owners living in the other part. It is one of the oldest and still inhabited wooden houses in the world.