Rein Church
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The author Johan Bojer was amongst the last cohort of confirmands to be confirmed in the old Rein Church. It was a wonderful day for him and his foster family on Fætten, but also a sad day for his Mother Randi. The people of Reinsgrenda loved their church. They had been coming here their whole lives from christening to the grave and now the church was to be demolished. It was not to be replaced and there would no longer be a church in this place. Johan promised his foster mother that if he became rich, he would give a new church to the village. When his novel ‘The Last Viking’ was released, Johan had enough money to build a church. The church that you see today is from 1932 and is nearly an exact copy of the old church. The old altarpiece with the sacrament as the main picture, is in place, together with other items that were found around the village. The villagers were very down to earth and took and used what they could from the old church when it was demolished. The doors in front of the pews were used as barn windows and the old baptistery was used by a farmer as a storeroom. In exchange for a new storeroom the church got their old baptistry back. Some of the inventory was given as gifts such as the feet of the font, which were originally a holder for floral arrangements and were donated by the Hornemann family. The old clocks that were from two churches back in time had been moved to the new church on Føll. It was decided that they would not be brought back to Rein church and Bojer bestowed two new clocks to the church. He named them after the two women who had meant the most to him during his life, Randi after his foster mother and Ellen after his wife.