@ChiefGenealogist beautiful

@ChiefGenealogist Wow!

@ChiefGenealogist That's amazing! My husband's ancestors worshiped in this stave church in Høyjord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Høyjord_Stave_Church

@ChiefGenealogist magnificent

@ChiefGenealogist My avatar shows a Norwegian 🇳🇴 bride circa 1890-1902 I think there was a famine & they came to USA 🇺🇸

@ChiefGenealogist Washington Island, WI: Stavkirke is a church based on drawings of the one built in Borgund, Norway in 1150 AD. We happened upon it while hiking. When I saw your photos, I knew this had to be the church it was modeled after. Thank you!! The following is a photo I took in WIsconsin:

@ChiefGenealogist some stave church pictures from our trip to #Norway. In #Valdres valley where some of my ancestors are from

@ChiefGenealogist and from the folk museum in Oslo

@ChiefGenealogist the stave church we’re my great grandfather was baptized we think. Didn’t get to see it unfortunately

@ChiefGenealogist Love this.

@ChiefGenealogist Wow!

@ChiefGenealogist amazing. :) what the pictures can't show is how these churches smell - we visited the one at the folk museum in oslo this year and it has an unreal smell of tar and pine, like nothing else i've experienced.