Kvernes Church
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Kvernes Church is the youngest of the parish Churches on Averøya. When the old Church was deemed to be too small and draughty, it was decided that a new Church should be built at Kvernes. It was finished in 1893 and it was agreed that the old Church would be taken down once the new one came into use. Luckily, that didn’t happen, and they were allowed to keep both Churches. If you position yourself between the two churches, perhaps you can see that the landscape is raised up? Especially next to the stave Church? And maybe you can also see some bumps here and there? That is because the old graveyard is here. In addition, cooking pits and other archaeological finds have also been discovered on the site, therefore, if improvements need to be made around the Church that require digging work, archaeologists need to be called in to carry out excavations first. A little further down, between the road and the new Church is a monument commemorating 1000 years of Averøy municipality. Kvernes was the focal point of the municipality’s 1000-year anniversary. Here the artist Rolf Øidvin set up a conversation - a dialogue between the monument and the Churches, around 1 o’clock in the afternoon the sunlight will fall between the two pillars and hit the third pillar.