Bygstad is a village in Sunnfjord Municipality in

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, whe ...

county,

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. The village is located on the northern shore of the Dalsfjorden, about northwest of the innermost part of the fjord. The municipal center, Sande, is about to the southeast of Bygstad and Førde Airport, Bringeland sits about east of the village. The village is an old church site where there once was a

stave church A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts ...

here dating back to the 13th century. The present Bygstad Church was built in 1845 and it serves the western part of the municipality of Gaular.

Notable residents

* Jenny Ellaug Følling, a Norwegian politician * Kristian Lien, a Norwegian politician

References

Villages in Vestland Sunnfjord {{Vestland-geo-stub