Gullstein Church () is a

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of the

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county,

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. It is located in the village of

Gullstein Gullstein is a village in Aure Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern side of the island of Tustna, about east of the village of Tømmervåg and about west of the village of Aure. The Soleimsu ...

, on the western coast of the island of Tustna. It is the main church for the Tustna

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which is part of the

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(

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) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1869 by the

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. The church seats about 300 people.

History

Historically, the island of Tustna was part of the

Edøy Church Edøy Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located at Straumen on the southern coast of the island of Smøla. It is the main church for the Edøy parish which is ...

parish. The church was located across the wide

Edøyfjorden Edøyfjorden is a fjord (more technically, a strait) in the Nordmøre region of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The long fjord runs between Smøla Municipality and Aure Municipality with many large and small islands on both sides. Some of the m ...

. This was sometimes a very difficult journey for the people of Tustna to get to church. During the 1850s, it is said that a total of 20 people died while crossing the fjord to go to church. In 1860, the people of the island of Tustna petitioned for their own church on the island. The formalities of approvals, planning, and construction took nearly ten years to complete, but the church was finally completed in 1869. It was designed by

and built in the village of Gullstein on the east coast of the island. The new church was

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on 21 November 1869. The wooden

has a tower on the west end and a

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on the north side of the

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which sits on the east end.

References

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History

See also

References