Kårböle stave church

Kårböle stave church
Kårböle stavkyrka
Kårböle stave church in July 2015
Location Kårböle
Country Sweden
Denomination Church of Sweden
History
Consecrated 1989 (1989)
Administration
Parish Färila-Kårböle
Diocese Uppsala

Coordinates: 61°58′49.8″N 15°18′5.8″E / 61.980500°N 15.301611°E / 61.980500; 15.301611 Kårböle stave church (St Olav's sacrifice church) is a reconstructed stave church in Kårböle, Ljusdal municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden.

The church is from 1989. It's built at a site where pilgrims stopped to perform ritual sacrifice on their long walk to Nidarosdomen in Norway, during pilgrimage in the 12th century.

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