ingeyrakirkja

Do not confuse with ingeyrarkirkju.

ingeyrakirkja is the rst stone built church in Iceland, located in Hnaing between two waters Hp and
Hnavatn. The congressman sgeir Einarsson had the
church built and it was consecrated in 1877
Prior to this there was an old turf church the site. sgeir decided to build the church with stone, but suitable
material was not available in the vicinity so in the winter
1864 - 1865 sgeir had stone moved from Nesbjrg to
the church site. The stone was taken by sled over the icecovered lake Hp, an 8 km long journey. A Stonemason
by the name of Sverrir Runlfsson built the church walls.
Each stone in the walls was put in stowage or tied down
and also glued with chalk, therefore the stones have not
moved to this day. sgeir and Sverrir arranged most of
the plans for the church and its building took 13 years. On
The 9th of September 1877 the Reverend Eirkur Briem
from Steinnes consecrated the church. Objects from the
old church were moved to the new one. The church has
many valuable objects. The oldest of these is an altarpiece made of alabaster probably from the 13th century.
The pulpit is probably of Dutch origin and from the year
1696. The pulpit was a gift from Lrus Gottrp lawyer,
who resided at ingeyrar monastery from 1683 - 1721.
He also gave a bounteous silver baptismal font with the
date 1663 and the date 1697. The church also owns a
silver chalice and an alter linen with the date 1763.

External links
Ocial Website

Coordinates: 653316N 202415W / 65.5545N

20.4043W
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