Holmenkollen Chapel
Stave-style timber chapel with dragon-head carvings, rebuilt by hand after a 1992 arson fire.
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This guide to Holmenkollen Chapel in Oslo starts with the wooden church raised in the forest in 1903 for Sunday hikers and skiers, and the August night in 1992 when it burned. It follows the rebuilding from the woods outward: slow-grown mountain pine from Telemark, a workshop far to the north in Vågå, and a Rauland carpenter who carved by evening. Best heard standing where you can see the roofline and its dragon heads.
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