• Borgund stave church is the most authentic wooden stave church in Norway, built between 1180 and 1200. Adorned with woodcarvings, runes.
  • Borgund Stave Church is said to have been built around 1180 and it’s one of the few dozen original stave churches that are still standing.
  • Borgund stave church was bought by Fortidsminneforeningen in 1877. The first guidebook in English for the stave church was published in 1898.
  • You may, for instance, use a bus taking you from Lærdal to Borgund Stave Church. By car. Going by car, you need to use Europe Street 16.
  • Borgund Stave Church history. Most of the frame churches built in Norway in the period from 1130 to 1350 when the bubonic plague was raging in Europe.
  • About Borgund Stave Church. It was the church for the Lærdal parish until 1868 when it was closed and turned into a museum.
  • Borgund Stave Church is a former parish church initially of the Catholic Church and later the Church of Norway in Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county...
  • The Borgund Stave Church Visitors Center offers exhibitions about the history of stave churches in Norway and their role in the Middle Ages.
  • Borgund Stave Church. A historic glimpse. In 1180 there was great activity in Borgund: they were going have a new church.
  • The Borgund Stave Church (also known as the Borgund stavkirke) was first built around 1180 and dedicated to Andrew the Apostle.