Yep, we found another lighthouse to test your skills. See if you can determine where this beautiful lighthouse photograph comes from. Send your guess to ebrack2@gmail.com, and include your hometown.
For the last edition, the architectural design, we thought, would signal where the photograph was from, and would be easy. But only six readers recognized the photo. Sorry, but we have lost who sent in the photo.
Those recognizing the Fantoft Stave Church, a reconstructed stave church in the Fana borough of the City of Bergen, Norway included Stewart Ogilvie of Rehobeth, Ala.; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Kirk Wilson, Johns Creek; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex., who added: “The earliest existing records of the original Fortun Stave Church date back to 1330, but historians believe that it was actually built ca.1150. As with many of the smaller 12th-century churches, it became too small to serve the community, and there were plans to tear it down. Instead, it was purchased by Fredrik Georg Gade (1830 – 1905), a Norwegian businessman and politician who dismantled it, moved the pieces to Fortun, and had it reassembled there.
“The reconstructed church remained in Fortun until it was totally destroyed by arson in June 1992. It was the first of more than 50 centuries-old churches that were targeted by a 1992 to 1996 movement, led by a number of black metal musicians, as a symbolic “retaliation” against Christianity in Norway. The second reconstruction of this medieval church began at its current site in the Fantoft neighborhood of Bergen soon after the 1992 fire. It took six years to complete and a security fence has surrounded the church since its completion in order to protect it from further protests and arsonists.”
Kirk Wilson also sent along a current view (at left) of the church, saying: “Was there July 30. Recognized it from architecture and gravel around it. It is a classic 1500s Stav church that was moved there from inland Norway in late 1800s by restoration philanthropists to protect it, but then burnt and was reconstructed to exacting detail and materials. Big tourist draw in Bergen.”
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