Today to counteract Di's sunny scenes and Margaret's lovely holiday pics, some churches from northern latitudes.
1 Mosfellskirkja church near Reykjavik, Iceland. Nobel Prize winning author
Halldór Laxness lived in the Mosfellsdalur valley. The farm on which he was raised now is the site of this church built in 1965
2 The church at Longyearbyen on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen in the Svalbard archipelago
3 The Russian orthodox chapel in the Russian mining settlement of Barentsburg on Spitzbergen
4 Methodist church in Tromso, Norway
5 Tromsdalen Church (
Tromsdalen Kirke), in Tromso, also known as the Arctic Cathedral, built in 1965. The church is actually a parish church and not, in fact, a cathedral
6 Close up of the church above from across the water
7 Borge church, Lofoten Islands, Norway. The church was built to echo the slope of the nearby mountain
8 Closeup of the church
9 Wooden Stave church ´Busknes Kirke´, Gravdal, Lofoten Islands, taken from the cruise ship as we were leaving the island. Looks like a pagoda!