Gjerde Church

It is one of the churches for the Etne parish which is part of the Sunnhordland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

[1][2] The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1288, but it was built some time before that.

In 1673, the church was badly damaged in a storm, and since it had been in poor condition for some time, it was decided to tear down the building.

[3][4][5][6] Instead of rebuilding, the parish purchased another church that was moved here from Sandviken in Bergen.

Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.

View of the church