Fantoft Stave Church
Rebuilt medieval-style wooden stave church with dragon-headed gables, set in quiet pine woods.
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This guide to Fantoft Stave Church in Bergen follows the money behind a medieval church that has spent its whole Bergen life in private hands. It starts at Fortun on the Sognefjord in the eighteen seventies, when a parish had an old church it no longer wanted, and brings in Fredrik Georg Gade, a Bergen manufacturer, consul and insurance founder. Later it reaches the night of the sixth of June nineteen ninety-two. Best heard at the fence, looking at the pegged pine walls.
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