Kåfjord Church
Kåfjord Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Gáivuotna–Kåfjord Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Olderdalen. It is the church for the Kåfjord parish which is part of the Nord-Troms prosti in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The red, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1949 by the architect Kirsten Sand from Finnmark. The church seats about 250 people.History
The first chapel building in Kåfjord was built in 1722 in connection with the Sami mission led by Thomas von Westen. It wasn't until 1949 when Kåfjord its first official church building. Kåfjord Church was built on the initiative of the inhabitants of the village of Olderdalen who collected funds and reused materials to build it. The church was renovated in 1989-1990.
