Balestrand
The English church in Balestrand was built as an imitation of a stave church. St. Olaf's Church is Anglican and is owned and operated by the Church of England.
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The English church in Balestrand was built as an imitation of a stave church. St. Olaf's Church is Anglican and is owned and operated by the Church of England.
This church built in a stave church style was completed in 1897. It belongs to the Church of England and is under the spiritual administration of the Bishop of Gibraltar who is in charge of all Anglican churches on the European mainland.
The church was erected in memory of Margaret Sophie Green Kvikne - a vicar's daughter from Yorkshire, England - who came to Norway as a mountaineering pioneer. She married Knut Kvikne. It was said that she never felt at ease with the Lutheran rituals in Norwegian churches. She died in 1894, but at her death bed, Knut promised her to build an Anglican church. The church building was completed in three years.
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