• Borgund Stave Church. Before heading into the church, you must first go through the visitor’s center and museum. This is where you pay your entrance fee.
  • Borgund stave church has an impressive exterior with six different roof sections on top of one another, and frightening dragon heads on each ridge.
  • 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.
  • 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 was bought by Fortidsminneforeningen in 1877. The first guidebook in English for the stave church was published in 1898.
  • The Borgund Stave Church (also known as the Borgund stavkirke) was first built around 1180 and dedicated to Andrew the Apostle.
  • Borgund stave church is located in Lærdal, Norway. This is the best preserved of Norway's 28 extant stave churches.
  • No trip to Norway is complete without a visit to Borgund Stave Church. But why this church out of the 28 remaining stave churches in the country?
  • The Borgund stave church is the one best kept intact through time… ... Map of where all the stave churches once were located. Borgund Church.
  • The Borgund Stave Church is a historical monument located in Borgund, within the Lærdal municipality of Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.