Qualla: Lom Stave Church https://qualla.com/lom-stave-church en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/y/p/lom-stave-church-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lom Stave Church https://qualla.com/lom-stave-church Lom Stave Church: Introduction https://qualla.com/lom-stave-church/ Photo credit Sean Hayford O'Leary, CC BY 2.0. Dragon heads still guard the roofline. They have been doing so, in one form or another, since the twelfth century, when builders raised Lom Stave Church from timbers cut around 1157-1158 in the forests of the Gudbrandsdal valley. Dendrochronology pins the date with scientific precision, but the building itself speaks in a language older than measurement -- the dark, tarred wood, the steep roof pitches designed to shed snow, the carved creatures that merge Christian architecture with something unmistakably Norse.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/y/p/lom-stave-church-wp/u4yp-lom-stave-church-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lom Stave Church: Older Than the Oldest https://qualla.com/lom-stave-church/ Photo credit Zairon, CC BY-SA 3.0. The church visitors see today is not the first to stand on this site. An 11th-century post church preceded it, a smaller wooden structure whose existence was confirmed during archaeological excavations in 1973. That earlier building had a rectangular nave with a narrower choir --...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/y/p/lom-stave-church-wp/u4yp-lom-stave-church-older-than-the-oldest.mp3 0:06 2 full Lom Stave Church: A Church That Kept Changing https://qualla.com/lom-stave-church/ Photo credit Stryn, CC BY-SA 3.0. Medieval buildings rarely stayed frozen in time, and Lom is no exception. The chancel was redecorated in 1608. By 1634, the growing congregation demanded more space, and a timber-framed extension was added to the west end -- a stopgap that lasted only three decades. In 1663, mast...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/y/p/lom-stave-church-wp/u4yp-lom-stave-church-a-church-that-kept-changing.mp3 0:06 3 full Lom Stave Church: Coins, Constitutions, and Coal Tar https://qualla.com/lom-stave-church/ Photo credit Zairon, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1814, Lom Stave Church served as an election church -- one of more than 300 parish churches across Norway where citizens voted for electors to the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll Manor, which would draft the nation's constitution. It was Norway's first democratic el...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/y/p/lom-stave-church-wp/u4yp-lom-stave-church-coins-constitutions-and-coal-tar.mp3 0:06 4 full Lom Stave Church: Still Standing, Still Serving https://qualla.com/lom-stave-church/ Photo credit Jan-Tore Egge, CC BY-SA 4.0. What makes Lom remarkable among Norway's surviving stave churches is not just its age but its continuity. This is not a museum piece or a ruin. It remains an active parish church in the Diocese of Hamar, seating about 350 people for services in the village of Fossbergom. The buil...

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