Pilgramage destination the old Church town of Herøy

In the beautiful cultural landscape on the most easternly part of Herøy lies Herøy old Church town. The wide view of Flåværleia is still similar to what our ancestors would have seen back when the coastal path was the most important traffic route in the country. The path you are travelling and the harbours that you visit, are the same as the travellers or pilgrims would have used in earlier times either on their way here, or to the national holy place of Nidaros. There is a legend attached to the island connected to a monastery that was supposedly located on a marked mound in the middle of the island, which is known as monastery mound. At the mound you can still see signs of the small building that stood there at one time. On Herøy hill there were two churches. The newest stood on the hill for only sixty years. The former, for almost 700 years, which was a stone church partly built in marble. Now you have arrived at Herøy’s pilgramage and holy site. Where the church once stood you will find a very old altar table in stone which was used in ecclesiastical acts. The stone church was devoted to the Virgin Mary – the foremost of all the saints. Here you will find hope and peace in the same place that travellers for hundreds of years have been coming to give thanks and lay down their burdens.