Hvalsey Church ruin

Hvalsey Church was a church at the abandoned Greenlandic Norse homestead of . The best preserved Norse ruins in , the church was also the location of the last written record of the Greenlandic Norse, a wedding in September 1408.
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  • Historic site
  • Description: ruins of church in Hvalseyjarfjord, Greenland
  • Also known as
    “Church of Hvalsey”
    “Hvalsey Church”
    “Kirkeruin”
    “Qaqortukulooq”
    “Qaqortukulôq”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hvalsey.
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Hvalsey Church ruin

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Latitude
60.82872° or 60° 49′ 43″ north
Longitude
-45.78166° or 45° 46′ 54″ west
Open location code
98GPR6H9+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 334262943
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q1703519

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Hvalsey Church ruin” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Hvalsey eliza”
  • Basque: “Hvalseyko eliza”
  • Catalan: “Església de Hvalsey”
  • Danish: “Hvalsey Kirke”
  • Danish: “Hvalsey Kirkeruin”
  • Danish: “Hvalseyjarfjord kirke”
  • Danish: “Hvalsø Kirke”
  • Esperanto: “Kirko de Hvalsey”
  • Esperanto: “Preĝejo de Hvalsey”
  • Finnish: “Hvalseyn kirkko”
  • French: “église de Hvalsey”
  • French: “Église de Hvalsey”
  • German: “Kirche von Hvalsey”
  • Hebrew: “כנסיית הבלסי”
  • Indonesian: “Gereja Hvalsey”
  • Korean: “흐발세위 교회”
  • Latvian: “Valsajas baznīca”
  • Latvian: “Valsejas baznīca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvalseyjarfjord kirke”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvalsø Kirke”
  • Norwegian: “Hvalsey kirke”
  • Polish: “Ruiny kościoła w Hvalsey”
  • Russian: “Церковь в Хвальсее”
  • Spanish: “iglesia de Hvalsey”
  • Spanish: “Iglesia de Hvalsey”
  • Swedish: “Hvalsey kyrka”

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