Our last trip was to the Gildeskål Church in the municipality of Gildeskål in Nordland county, Norway. The Gildeskål church is a parish church. It is located north of the village of Inndyr. The church is part of the Gildeskål parish in the Bodø deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.
In 1851, a new law was passed that said that all rural churches had to be able to fit at least 30% of the parish members in the church building. Since the old Gildeskål church was too small, a new church had to be built for the parish. It was decided that the new church would be built on the same site, just west of the old church. The new church was completed in 1881 and it seated about 750 people.
The landscape around the church site is untouched by recent development. Grave mounds,
old stone boat landings and the old church path are among the cultural relics in the area.
There is a magnificent view of the islands and shipping channels from the church hill.
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