Bygland Church
History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1316, but the church was not new that year. In 1669, the old stave church was torn down and replaced with a new building. Not much is known about that building.
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke). Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.
In 1838, the church building was torn down and a new cruciform building was constructed on the same site. The new church was consecrated on 18 November 1838 by the local provost, Ole Berg, from Evje Church.
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See also
References
- ^ "Bygland kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Bygland kyrkjestad" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Valgkirkene". LokalHistorieWiki.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.