Kirkjubøur
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- Type: Village with 74 residents
- Description: settlement on Streymoy, Faroe Islands
- Also known as: “Kirkebö” and “Kirkjubour”
Photo: PanWoyteczek, CC BY 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Magnus Cathedral and Saint Olav’s Church.
Saint Magnus Cathedral
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Magnus Cathedral is a ruined cathedral in the village of Kirkjubøur on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. The ruins are the largest medieval building in the Faroe Islands.
Saint Olav’s Church
Church
Photo: Efloean, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint Olav's Church is a medieval church in the village of Kirkjubøur in Streymoy, Faroe Islands. It was built before 1200, which makes it the oldest church of the Faroe Islands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Velbastaður and Hestur.
Velbastaður
Village
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Velbastaður is a village on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. It is a part of Tórshavn Municipality and is considered among the oldest settlements in the islands. Velbastaður is situated 4½ km northwest of Kirkjubøur.
Hestur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hestur is an island in the central Faroe Islands, to the west of Streymoy and the south of Koltur. Hestur means horse in Faroese. On the west coast is a guillemot colony. Hestur is situated 4½ km west of Kirkjubøur.
Argir
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Argir is a village in the Faroe Islands. Argir most likely takes its name from Old Irish airge, which means summer pasture; several placenames in Faroe carry the same name with this meaning. Argir is situated 5 km north of Kirkjubøur.
Kirkjubøur
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tórshavn Municipality, Streymoy, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.95371° or 61° 57′ 13″ northLongitude
-6.79341° or 6° 47′ 36″ westPopulation
74Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)Open location code
9CHMX634+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 29023760OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2618846Wikidata ID
Q578732
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Welsh—“Kirkjubøur” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Kirkjubøur”
- Catalan: “Kirkjubøur”
- Chinese: “奇尔丘伯乌尔”
- Chinese: “奇爾丘伯”
- Danish: “Kirkebø”
- Danish: “Kirkjubøur”
- Dutch: “Kirkjubøur”
- Faroese: “Kirkjubøur”
- French: “Kirkjubøur”
- German: “Kirkjubøur”
- Hungarian: “Kirkjubøur”
- Icelandic: “Kirkjubær”
- Irish: “Kirkjubøur”
- Italian: “Kirkjubøur”
- Japanese: “キルクシュボア”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirkebø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirkjubøur”
- Norwegian: “Kirkjubøur”
- Ossetian: “Киркьюбёур”
- Ossetian: “Чирчубёвур”
- Polish: “Kirkjubøur”
- Romanian: “Kirkjubøur”
- Russian: “Чирчубёвур”
- Spanish: “Kirkjubøur”
- Swedish: “Kirkjubøur”
- Ukrainian: “Чирчубевур”
- Welsh: “Kirkjubøur”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kirkjubøur”. Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.