Heddal Stave Church. Photo by Ilya Grigorik ... IV of Prussia and transferred from Vang in the Valdres region of Norway to what is now Karpacz in 1842. Photo by Uzytkownik3008.

Heddal Stave church (Heddal stavkirke) is one of only twenty-eight surviving stave churches in Norway. Based on dendrochronology, the church has been dated to the mid-13th century, but some of the ...

Norway is a land of breathtaking beauty ... Urnes Stave Church is the oldest, while Heddal Stave Church, the largest, dazzles with its golden hue against the sky. Norwegians are avid readers ...