View over the River Ness towards the St. Columba and Free North Churches, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Altar, Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Hopperstad stave church (ca. 1130), Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Interior view of Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Baptismal font, Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Grave of Geva, woman of the founder of the monastery, grave slab from the year 1200, St. Bonifatius, a former free-world ladies' monastery with a collegiate church in Freckenhorst, Warendorf district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Figural paintings in the interior of the stave church (12th century) in Undredal at the Aurlandsfjord, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Norway's smallest stave church in Undredal at Aurlandsfjord, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Flesberg Stave Church, built in the twelfth and reconstructed in the eighteenth century, Numedal, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Thirteenth-century stave church in Rollag, Numedal, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Exterior, Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Carved wooden portal, Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Interior view of Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

St. Bonifatius, a former free-world ladies' convent with a collegiate church in Freckenhorst, Warendorf district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Alte Kirche St. Salvator church, Pellworm, North Friesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe, PublicGround

Interior of the stave church (12th century) in Undredal at the Aurlandsfjord, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Exterior, Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Norway's smallest stave church in Undredal at Aurlandsfjord, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Exterior, Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Twelfth-century stave church in Uvdal, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Interior view of Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Exterior, Heddal Stave Church (Heddal Stavkirke), thirteenth-century stave church in Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Twelfth-century stave church in Uvdal, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Carving detail at a twelfth-century stave church in Uvdal, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Stave church at the living history museum in Uvdal, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Twelfth-century stave church in Uvdal, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Twelfth-century stave church in Uvdal, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Twelfth-century stave church in Uvdal, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Free Church, Reykjavik, Iceland, Europe