Logtun Church is a medieval church in the village of Logtun

Logtun

Logtun is a village in the municipality of Frosta in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located about southwest of the municipal center of Frosta. It is the location of the historic Logtun Church and it is near the area of the old Frostating....

 in the municipality of Frosta

Frosta

Frosta is the smallest municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Frosta. The municipality is located in the middle of the Trondheimsfjord, on a peninsula just north of Trondheim...

 in Nord-Trøndelag

Nord-Trøndelag

is a county constituting the northern part of Trøndelag in Norway. As of 2010, the county had 131,555 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-least populated county. The largest municipalities are Stjørdal, Steinkjer—the county seat, Levanger, Namsos and Verdal, all with between 21,000 and...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The church is now owned by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, but it is still used for baptism

Baptism

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s, wedding

Wedding

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 ceremonies, some religious services, and concert

Concert

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s. The nearby Frosta Church

Frosta Church

Frosta Church is a parish church in the municipality of Frosta in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Frosta and was built in 1866. The church is part of the Frosta parish in the Sør-Innherad deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros....

 was built in 1866 to replace it as the main church for the area.

History

Logtun is located on the Frosta peninsula close to Tinghaugen, the site of the early Norwegian Frostating

Frostating

Frostating was the site of an early Norwegian court. Frostating had its seat at Tinghaugen in Frosta municipality in the county of Nord-Trøndelag.-Tinghaugen:...

 court. There was already a church at Logtun at the time of Archbishop Eystein Erlendsson, from 1157 to 1180, but no sources indicate when this particular church was built. It is assumed that it dates back to 1500s, and that it has been rebuilt several times. The church has a special altar piece was carved in 1652, and painted in 1655.