Berle Church

It is the church for the Berle parish which is part of the Nordfjord prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

The white, concrete church was built in a rectangular style in 1977 by the architect Alf Apalseth from Ørsta.

The room is light, marked by the white concrete walls and the pine-panelled slanted ceiling, with narrow windows on the sides.

[3] The unpredictable weather conditions on the Frøysjøen strait make it easy to understand that people wanted to have their own church at Berle.

Things improved a little when the village of Berle got their own graveyard in 1893, next door to the present church site.

Finally, in 1963, things started moving in the right direction when a special committee was appointed to work for a more targeted approach in the church cause.

Bishop Per Juvkam was also a very happy man when he returned to Berle on 21 May 1976 to lay the foundation stone for the chapel.

The following year, on 3 July 1977, his successor, bishop Thor With, came to Berle to consecrate this modern church building.

View of the church
View of the small building by the graveyard