Country Norway Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran Completed c. 1240 Opened 1240 Status Parish church | Denomination Church of Norway Functional status Active Address 6872 Luster, Norway Capacity 200 | |
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Location Luster Municipality,
Sogn og Fjordane Diocese Lutheran Diocese of Bjørgvin Similar Old Gaupne Church, Feigefossen, Joranger Church, Fet Church, Hafslo Church | ||
Dale Church (Norwegian: Dale kyrkje) is a parish church in Luster Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Luster on the western shore of the Lustrafjorden. The church is part of the Dale parish in the Indre Sogn deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
Dale Church of Luster reflects both Romanesque and Gothic style. The medieval era church was built around the year 1240 and it was dedicated to Saint Nicholas. The church seats about 200 people. The church is endowed with sculpture in Vestportalen soapstone and preserved interiors from the Middle Ages. Construction includes granite in cavity walls with soapstone corners and frames. The nave and choir are rectangular. The porch and the ridge turret above the entrance in the west were built in the 1600s. The Gothic west portal dates to ca. 1250; the west tower added later. The church was restored in 1903 under the direction of architect Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland.
Furnishings for Dale Church are from various eras. The baptismal font from the 1200s is of soapstone and is shaped as a four-leaf clover. The pulpit is in Renaissance style from the 1600s, while the baroque altarpiece and memory boards are from around 1700. The pulpit has pictures of evangelists in the side panels together with depictions of the Crucifixion with Mary and John the Evangelist at foot of the cross, flanked by Moses and John the Baptist. The choir wall is decorated with frescoes from the late 1500s. The bride bench dates from the 1100s and the crucifix from the 1200s.