While Norway's churches are stepping up security in preparation for a date with associations to the beast of Revelations, Norwegian Satanists say that they have no plans to cause trouble.
Norway has a history of churches being torched, particularly the stave churches that are historical landmarks.
Fantoft stave church was burnt on 06.06.1992.
The first half of the 1990s witnessed a series of church fires, carried out by what some called an organized community, but in recent years he agrees that this organization has been absent.
I'll hope they stay away from the churches!!
Stave Church
10th-century missionaries to Norway concerned themselves with establishing chapels, churches and other ecclesiastical centers. Thus far, archaeological exploration has revealed traces of thirty-odd post churches built no later than 1200. Some of these early wooden churches disappeared due to neglect as well as fire and other natural disasters, but the rest were replaced by new constructions. Nevertheless, 28 of the stave churches built after the year 1100 still survive. This website presents information and research materials illuminating the medieval stave church from several perspectives: the architectural, from the carpenter’s point of view; the ecclesiastical, from the fervent Christian bishop’s point of view; and the secular, from the socially oriented patron’s point of view.
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