KVIKNE CHURCH

If you are interested in seeing one of the country's finest altarpieces, and a church with rich interior decoration, you must visit Kvikne Church, which is a cruciform church made of timber.

Kvikne church from 1654 is a clapboarded timber church with external tar-lined standing panels. There used to be a stave church here, but when a copper works was built on the site in 1632, the old church gradually became too small and was replaced by a new and larger church. Supervisor at the copper works, Knud Mortensen, was the builder.

Kvikne church is a cruciform church with short cross arms and roof ridges above the middle. In the 18th century, a sacristy was built behind the choir to the east and an armory to the west. The church is unusually well preserved and relatively unchanged both externally and internally. It is mostly only the sacristy and the armory that were added after the church was built, and most of the interior is authentic, apart from the creeper decoration on the timber walls, which was painted in the 1730s.

The three-story altarpiece from 1663 has a traditional picture program with the Last Supper at the bottom, the Crucifixion in the middle and a sculpture of Christ at the top. The pulpit is polygonal and richly carved. Both it and several of the decorated benches are presumably from the construction period, made by Jørgen Snedker and with carved decorations by Johan Bilthugger.