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The steep Damstredet with traditional wooden houses. Towering on the hill above are the iconic Westye Egeberg blocks.
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Vår frelsers gravlund
Graves of Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen, and a large number of reputed Norwegians. Several statues, including one by Gustav Vigeland. Gamle Aker Church (the oldest building in Oslo) stands in the northern corner of the graveyard. The graveyard is pretty park and within easy walk the very centre at Karl Johans gate/Akersgata.
A thriving design and architecture centre providing areas for large and small exhibitions, conferences and meetings, activities for children, as well as a bookshop and café.
Gamle Aker kirke
This modest, sturdy, Romanesque church is the oldest existing building in Oslo. Built around 1100. It is one of the few Norwegian churches built in traditional basilica shape (three parallel naves). The building sits on a small hill in the northern corner of Vår Frelsers graveyard. Old Aker church has its own grave yard built on terraces at the edge of the hill, the grave yard is a pretty park with fine panorama.
The Roman Catholic main cathedral in Norway. Seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Oslo
the first Norwegian Roman Catholic cathedral (from 1856) which was built after the Protestant Reformation. The cathedral has church services and masses in Norwegian and several other languages, including English, Spanish and Polish.
Anglican church in Oslo
St. Edmund's Church belongs to the Church of England. It's a small neogothic building in red and yellow brick beneath the Hammersborg hill near the Swedish and Catholic churches as well as ministry buildings.
Swedish church in Oslo
The Margareta Church in Oslo belongs the Lutheran Church of Sweden. The building sits on the small Hammersborg hilltop next to Deichmanske (public library), Trinity Church, St Olavs catholic church. Ministry buildings are next door across street. St. Edmund's Church (anglican) is nearby down the hill.