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Norwegian Folk Museum's Stave Church

Norwegian Folk Museum's Stave Church Photo: Norsk Folkemuseum/Anne-Lise Reinsfelt
Norwegian Folk Museum's Stave Church Photo: Norsk Folkemuseum/Anne-Lise Reinsfelt

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Gol Stavkirke is 800 years old, and around the year 1880, King Oscar II moved the church from the mountain village of Gol to the Norwegian Folk Museum in Oslo.

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