The Rose Church in Stordal
The Rose Church is an octagonal wooden church dating from 1789 C.E. It is famous for its wall paintings which cover the whole church’s interior. The paintings depict scenes from the Bible and stylized floral decoration in typical Norwegian style.
Black & White HDR.
HDR of church interior.
Neighboring building. Also part of this cultural site.
For those interested I’ve scanned some information about The Rose Church. It’s two PDF-files, one in English, the other in Nynorsk. The Rose Church is not a stave church, but I’ll publish it in my Stave Church section anyway, so that it’ll be easy to find for the many people that are interested in such buildings.
Follow one of these links for more information:
RoseChurch-English | Rosekyrkja-Nynorsk
The photos in this post are published under the Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 license and this post was my entry for: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/adventure/.
Incredible detail hiding behind the plain exterior!
Yes, I’m glad that we stopped there: we didn’t know about the place and just happened to pass by during the opening hours.
O my goodness, such an amazing job!
Amazing handicrafts.
Ornamental eruptions under a vegetation-roof; fine post!
The paintings took me by surprise when I entered the church. The wooden building with vegetation roof is some sort of museum. All the wall paintings are in the church.
Love it!!!
That is impressive!
I agree.
Thanks for sharing the unique beauty of this church. I particularly like your photo with the side of the cross in the front.
janet
Thank you Janet. I’m glad to hear that. That specific image is turned into HDR from 3 bracketed shots, in order to better show the rust on the cross without losing the scenery in the background.
Thank you for sharing this gem with us, Max. Fin helg!
My pleasure Paula.
God helg til deg også!
Is this “good weekend after tomorrow”? If I don’t hear from you soon, i will go to google translator 😀
No, it simply means “Happy weekend to you too”
(I’m painfully aware that it’s a late reply, but better late than never).
😀 ok, I was close 😀 Yes, better late than never
Fantastic
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Very interesting detail work. I like how some of the figurines almost look clown-like. Very cool.
How cool is that! You really can’t judge a book by its cover – or a building by its exterior! Thanks for sharing
That’s true. I had no idea what to expect when I entered the building. It was mind-blowing and quite surreal.
What a lovely church! I’ve never seen a church with such decor – what a treat for you to have seen it in person!
Yes it was! I’m glad we stopped there.
Marvellous! There are many beautiful chuches in Norway – this one I had never heard of. How fortunate you stopped there. That other building is traditionally beautiful, and the cross – magnificent. That’s something we do not have much of in Sweden – iron crosses. The graveyards are much more sterile and stony here.
It was very fortunate. We have some interesting graveyards here and there, but many are quite uniform and anonymous.
Beautiful shots, C!
Well done Max!!!
Thank you very much Chris.
A pleasure!
Very impressive photos. What an amazing place by the looks of your photos. Thanks
FABULOUS M !
Gorgeous!!! Love all the details, shot no.3 through the cross is so very beautiful. Thanks Cardinal.
And thanks to you Madhu.
I really like the two shots of the cross in the churchyard.
Thanks. I wish that I had some more air in the bottom of the detail photo, but….
Are you sure it’s a church? 😀 Architecturally, it’s incredible. But as a church … Too decorated, impressingly decorated, to be a house of prayer, don’t you think?
I don’t know, I never pray to anyone, but I like the decorations here and I find many churches to be beautiful places.
amazing pictures, the colors are alive!
Thanks Bipasha. Awesome decorations.
This is astonishing! Seriously. I’m not religious, but this would be a church where I would feel well.
I’m not religious either, but I appreciate visiting special churches like this one.
I visited the Rose church in Stordal a few months ago and just last week posted about it. IT is fabulous! The paintings you see are Renaissance baroque – the precursor to Rosemaling aren’t they? I wasn’t able to get good light inside the church ( no flash allowed ) so I am impressed to see your excellent photographs.
Thank you! I posted two PDF files with more info about the place in the bottom of my post. They’re scans of the info that you get when visiting the church, so you’ve probably read it already.
I’ll head over to your blog and check out your post now!
What an amazing place ! Such intricate detailing. Well captured by you 🙂
Gorgeous, gorgeous pictures! My 4th great grandfather was the Rosemaler in that church. His name was Webjorn Halling (or Webjorn Olsen Hamarsbo). As you can imagine, I would LOVE to visit there someday! Thank you for sharing!
That’s awesome! I’m glad you found my blog post about the church and I hope you get to visit it someday.
I am also a “many-times”great grandchild of Webjorn Olson Hamarsboe. My husband and I plan to visit Norway this coming summer and will be visiting the Old Stordal Church on July 31st. Do you know of the recently published book called “Brev heim” by Torstein Seim in which are printed letters written by Webjorn Oson Hamarsboe and his brother Svend to their parents about their travels? it is a facinating look into the past.
Hi Sylvia! Neat post, huh?! 😊
It’s cool that the descendants have discovered my post. 🙂
I haven’t read the book Sylvia.