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Borgund Stave Church

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Borgund Stave Church is a former parish church in Laerdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway, built around the year 1200 as the village church of Borgund and used by the Laerdal parish until 1868, when its religious functions passed to a newer Borgund Church nearby. The old building was restored, conserved, and turned into a museum funded and run by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, and is classified as a triple nave stave church of the Sogn type; its grounds hold Norway's only surviving free standing stave built bell tower.

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Church 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Lærdal Municipality, Norway 2
Completed Year
1101 3
Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Church 1
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Source Borgund Stave Church (Wikidata)

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Source Borgund Stave Church (Wikipedia)
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1. Borgund Stave Church (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article (standing)
    Borgund Stave Church is a former parish church in Laerdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway, built around the year 1200 as the village church of Borgund and used by the Laerdal parish until 1868, when its religious functions passed to a newer Borgund Church nearby. The old building was restored, conserved, and turned into a museum funded and run by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, and is classified as a triple nave stave church of the Sogn type; its grounds hold Norway's only surviving free standing stave built bell tower.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Church)
    Borgund Stave Church (Norwegian: Borgund stavkyrkje) is a former parish church initially of the Catholic Church and later the Church of Norway in Lærdal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It was built around the year 1200 as the village church of Borgund, and belonged to Lærdal parish (part of the Sogn prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin) until 1868, when its religious functions were
  • Uses Element: Timber, infobox material field: Wood
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2. Borgund Stave Church (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Lærdal Municipality, Norway
    Wikidata item Q755010, property P131/P17 (location): Lærdal Municipality, Norway
  • In Style: Stave Church Architecture, Wikidata P149
    architectural style: stave church
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3. Wikidata: Borgund Stave Church
  • Wikidata Q755010, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)
  • Wikidata Q755010, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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