Cathedral Vågsalmenningen
Twelfth-century stone church named for a True Cross relic, with a carved soapstone Renaissance portal.
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This guide to Holy Cross Church in Bergen starts with a sound: a morning bell that rang at seven o'clock for centuries. It follows what the church once claimed to hold, what the Reformation did to that belief, and the fires that kept remaking the building. Stand by the north door, where a carved soapstone portal carries a king's monogram.
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