The black church of Budir, Iceland Framed Print

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All that remains of Budir’s former community is the black wooden church Búðakirkja. Bent Lauridtsen retained a bishop’s permit from Jón Vídalín in 1701 to build a church in the area but decision on where it would stand was difficult to make. According to local tail, an elderly woman suggested that a man would spin in circles until he became dazed and confused upon which he then would shoot three arrows into the air and should one of them be specially marked. Where ever the marked arrow would land, that would be the place where the church should be built.

A small turf chapel was built in 1703, where it stood until it was dismissed by orders of the Danish King Christian VIII in 1816. Several residents fought for the reclamation of the church but it was not until in 1847 and issued at that the priest’s council in Reykjavik in 1949 that allowed for the construction of a new house of worship—as long as the residents of Budir would fully finance the project and see to it...

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