{"id":6850,"date":"2020-06-04T18:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/?post_type=artikler&p=6850"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:13:58","slug":"bardu-church-was-built-for-homesick-settlers","status":"publish","type":"artikler","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/artikkel\/bardu-church-was-built-for-homesick-settlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bardu Church was built for homesick settlers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tWhen the settlers in Bardu decided to build a new church in 1821, they sought inspiration in the place they came from. And so the community\u2019s most skilled builder was despatched down to Tynset in \u00d8sterdalen. Bardu Church is a copy of Tynset Church.\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n

Most of the inhabitants of Inner Troms are from families originating in mountain communities down in Eastern Norway, in the Gudbrandsdalen and \u00d8sterdalen valleys, and in South Tr\u00f8ndelag. The gigantic \u201cStorofsen\u201d flood which brought catastrophe to the valleys in the summer of 1789, not only carried away entire houses and farms, but also washed away impoverished soil, leaving many farmers barely able to scratch a living. And so many people migrated north in the succeeding decades and cleared land and settled in M\u00e5lselv, Bardu and several other valleys in Northern Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a long way to Ibestad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The settlers in the Bardu valley had a long way to get to church. First they had to walk right down to Salangen, then take a long boat ride over to Ibestad where the church was. With day-to-day lives spent in back-breaking toil clearing the land for farming, the settlers felt the lack of a local house of God very keenly indeed. In 1821 they were finally granted permission to build a church.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\t\tPractical information about Bardu church\n\t\t\t<\/h3>
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