Gol Stave Church - Oslo, Norway
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N 59° 54.474 E 010° 40.985
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Gol Stave Church is located in Oslo, Norway.
Waymark Code: WMP34W
Location: Oslo, Norway
Date Posted: 06/21/2015
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Gol Stave Church is a stave church originally from Gol, Hallingdal, Norway. It is now located in the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History at Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway.
The term “stave church” refers to the staves, or posts, that support the roof.
"The Gol stave church is dendrochronologically dated to 1212. When the city built a new church around 1880, it was decided to demolish the old stave church. It was saved from destruction by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, which bought the materials in order to re-erect the church elsewhere. It was acquired by King Oscar II, who financed its relocation and restoration as the central building of his private open-air museum near Oslo. The restoration, overseen by architect Waldemar Hansteen, was completed in 1885. In 1907 this early open air museum, the world's first, was merged with the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, which now manages the stave church. The church, however, is still nominally the property of the reigning monarch."
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