Gulen Church

Historie

Gulen Church is a parish church in Gulen Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Eivindvik. The church is part of the Gulen parish in the Nordhordland deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church, which has 700 seats, was consecrated on 13 December 1863 by the local Dean Thomas Erichsen. The architect Georg Andreas Bull made the designs.HistoryEivindvik is regarded as a very old church site, perhaps one of the oldest in the country. The two stone crosses which stands close to the church is over a thousand years old. This is probably where the first Christians in the area gathered, until they built themselves a church. The present church is built on top of the same site as all the previous buildings. Gulen Church was built while the parish is still named Evindvig, and for that reason the church was originally called Evindvig Church. The church name was changed to Gulen Church in 1890. The church stands on a hill in central Eivindvik, with magnificent views towards the Gulafjorden.