Hove Church
Hove Church is a historic parish church of the Church of Norway in Vik Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vikøyri on the Arnafjord, an arm of the Sognefjord.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Per Magne Kjøde, Public domain.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Lutheran
- Description: church in Vik, Norway
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hopperstad Stave Church and Hove power station.
Hopperstad Stave Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hopperstad Stave Church is a historic parish church of the Church of Norway in the village of Vikøyri in Vik Municipality in Vestland county. It was historically the church for the Hopperstad parish in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. Hopperstad Stave Church is situated 1 km northwest of Hove Church.
Hove power station
Power station
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hove power station is situated 630 metres southeast of Hove Church.
Vik Church
Church
Photo: DeServian1431, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vik Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Vik Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vikøyri. It is the church for the Vik parish which is part of the Sogn prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. Vik Church is situated 1 km north of Hove Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vikøyri.
Vikøyri
Photo: Iz48, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vikøyri is a village of 1200 people on the south side of the Sognefjorden. The medieval churches Hove Church and Hopperstad Stave Church, as well as Vik Church from 1877, are located here. It is the administrative center of the municipality of Vik.
Hove Church
- Categories: cultural property, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Vik, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.07179° or 61° 4′ 19″ northLongitude
6.58414° or 6° 35′ 3″ eastElevation
80 metres (262 feet)Inception
1170Operator
FortidsminneforeningenOpen location code
9FH83HCM+PMOpenStreetMap ID
way 557505325OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=lutheran
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Hove Church” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Església de fusta d’Hove”
- Catalan: “església de Hove”
- Danish: “Hove Kirke”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه هوف”
- Finnish: “Hoven kirkko”
- German: “Hove Steinkirche”
- German: “Kirche von Hove”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hove gamle kirke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hove kirke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hove kirkested”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hove kyrkje”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hove steinkirke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hove gamle kyrkje”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hove kyrkje”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hove steinkyrkje”
- Norwegian: “Hove kyrkje”
- Norwegian: “Hove steinkyrkje”
- Spanish: “iglesia de Hove”
- Spanish: “Iglesia de Hove”
- Swedish: “Hove kyrka”
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