Gulen Church

Gulen Church (Norwegian: Gulen kyrkje) 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.

History

Eivindvik 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.

Gulen

 Gulen  is a municipality in the southwestern part of Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Eivindvik. Other villages in Gulen include Brekke, Byrknes, Dalsøyra, Dingja, Instefjord, Mjømna, Rutledal, and Ytre Oppedal.

The municipality of Gulen sits to the south of the Sognefjorden and it surrounds the Gulafjorden, which is considered to be the place where Norway's west-coastal Vikings met for the Gulating, a governing body. The area along the Gulafjorden called Flolid (just east of the village of Eivindvik) is now a national historic place, where an open air theater and annual summer play commemorates the Vikings who gathered there 1000 years ago to accept Christianity.

General information

Evindvig was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The municipality of 1838 was created to be identical to the Evindvig parish (prestegjeld) that included the three sub-parishes (sokn) of Eivindvik, Brekke, and Husøy. The sub-parish of Brekke (population: 898) was separated from the municipality in 1850 to form a municipality of its own, leaving a total of 3,944 residents in Evindvig. (Later, Brekke was merged with Lavik as the municipality of Lavik og Brekke. This was short-lived and Brekke later became a separate municipality once again.)

Gulen (disambiguation)

Gulen or Gülen may refer to:

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Gulen (fjord)

Gulen is a fjord in Bremanger Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The fjord empties into the Frøysjøen strait (on the west end) and to the east, it splits into three branches: Nordgulen, Midtgulen, and Sørgulen. The fjord is a maximum of 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long (including the Nordgulen branch), terminating at the village of Svelgen in the east. The Svelgen river is one of the primary inflows of the fjord.

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