Voss Church

Voss Church is a parish church in Voss municipality in Hordaland County, Norway. It is placed within the village of Vossevangen. The church is a part of the Voss parish in the Hardanger og Voss deanery in the Diocese of Bjorgvin. The stone church turned into built in 1277 and it seats about 500 people. The web page of the prevailing church may additionally once have been occupied with the aid of a heathen temple. In 1023, King Olaf Haraldsen visited Vossevangen to transform the human beings to Christianity.

Tradition says that he built a large stone pass on the web page, which was probably the primary Christian place of worship at Voss and it have become the primary church for Hordafylket during the middle Ages. The first church right here changed into constructed of wood, but it become replaced by way of a stone church in 1277. In a royal letter dating from 1271, King Magnus Lagabote expressed his pleasure that the parishioners were going to replace the wood building with a stone one, and he urged the continuation and crowning glory of the challenge. When it became completed in 1277, the church was devoted to Saint Michael. Restoration paintings became performed on the church between 1919 and 1953 by Georg Greve.