NORWAY BEYOND THE STAVE CHURCH by ELIOT RAFFIT

NORWAY BEYOND THE STAVE CHURCH by ELIOT RAFFIT - Digital Painting from the NATIONS Collection - Digital Artist Fine Art Painting Shop: www.EliotRaffit.com www.EliotBranding.com Norway's flag stands tall above the Heddal Stave Church, a parish church of the Church of Norway in Notodden Municipality in Telemark county in the village of Heddal. The wooden, triple nave stave church was built in a long church design around the year 1200. The church is one of the 28 surviving stave churches in Norway and it is considered to be the largest of the stave churches constructed entirely out of wood and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.