Norway, Lom Stave Church (00:01:16)

Lom Stave Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Lom municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Fossbergom in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. It is the church for the Lom parish which is part of the Nord-Gudbrandsdal prosti in the Diocese of Hamar. The first church at Lom was a small wooden post church that was built during the 11th century. Not much is known of the first church. Evidence of this church was discovered underneath the present church during an archaeological investigation in 1973. This first building measured about 9.5 by 5.2 metres  with a rectangular nave with a smaller, narrower choir on one end. Around the years 1160–1170, the old church was torn down and a larger, wooden stave church was built on the same site.