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Urnes Stave Church

c. 1130 · 12th century

Urnes Stave Church is a wooden church on the Lustrafjord, a branch of the Sognefjord in western Norway, built around 1130 and among the oldest surviving stave churches. It reuses carved timbers from an earlier church whose interlaced animal ornament gave its name to the Urnes style, the last phase of Viking art. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.

Urnes Stave Church
Image: Leo-setä · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Urnes Stave Church. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/urnes-stave-church
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The Epoch Institute. “Urnes Stave Church.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/urnes-stave-church.
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