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Urnes Stave Church

Cultural World Heritage property in Norway, inscribed in 1979 under criteria (i), (ii), (iii).

Urnes Stave Church, Norway
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State Party
Norway
Year of inscription
1979
Criteria
iiiiii
Area of property
0.2 ha
Location
Luster Municipality
What it is
cultural property, stave church
Founded or built
1101
Reference
WHC 58 · Wikidata Q210678

Why it is on the List

(i)A masterpiece of human creative genius.(ii)Shows a major exchange of ideas — in architecture, technology, art, town planning or landscape design — over time or across a cultural area.(iii)A unique or exceptional witness to a cultural tradition or a civilisation, living or vanished.
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