Torpo Stave Church
Torpo Stave Church is a stave church located in Torpo, a small village in Ål municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. Torpo is located along Norwegian National Road 7, the Norwegian national road which runs between Oslo and Bergen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Lutheran
- Description: church building in Ål, Buskerud, Norway
- Also known as: “Torpo stave church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Torpo Church and Lya power station.
Lya power station
Industrial building
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lya power station is an industrial building, which is situated 1½ km west of Torpo Stave Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torpo and Opheim.
Torpo
Village
Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Torpo is a small village in Ål municipality, in Buskerud County, Norway, and can be reached by using highway 7. The name Torpo was adopted July 1, 1935 from the old name Torpe.
Opheim
Hamlet
Opheim is a village in Ål municipality in Buskerud, Norway. Opheim is situated in the north of the valley of Hallingdal. The traditional industry in the area is mostly agriculture with some forestry.
Torpo Stave Church
- Categories: cultural property, stave church, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Ål, Buskerud, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.66403° or 60° 39′ 51″ northLongitude
8.70841° or 8° 42′ 30″ eastElevation
330 metres (1,083 feet)Inception
1200Operator
FortidsminneforeningenOpen location code
9FGCMP75+J9OpenStreetMap ID
way 558315245OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=lutheran
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Torpo Stave Church” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “església de fusta de Torpo”
- Catalan: “Església de fusta de Torpo”
- Chinese: “托爾波木板教堂”
- Danish: “Torpo stavkirke”
- Finnish: “Torpon sauvakirkko”
- French: “stavkirke de Torpo”
- French: “Stavkirke de Torpo”
- German: “Stabkirche Torpo”
- German: “Torpo”
- Japanese: “トルポ・スターヴ教会”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torpo stavkirke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torpo stavkyrkje”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Torpo stavkyrkje”
- Norwegian: “Torpo stavkirke”
- Norwegian: “Torpo stavkyrkje”
- Polish: “Torpo stavkirke”
- Spanish: “iglesia de madera de Torpo”
- Spanish: “Iglesia de madera de Torpo”
- Swedish: “Torpo stavkyrka”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sveinsrud and Klovberghaugen.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Oppheimskrysset and Nubgarden.
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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 Wikipedia page “Torpo Stave Church”. Photo: Eric Spenle, CC BY 3.0.