This black church is named Stave Church and I'm not really sure what the name means. In Icelandic, it is called Stafkirkjan. It's located on the island of Heimaey, in Iceland, and was the last location we were able to visit before we had to catch a ferry back to the mainland.
It was gifted to Iceland by Norwegians to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of Iceland's conversion to Christianity. Norwegians built it with ultimate care and attention to detail. Every piece of this building is hand-crafted. It is a replica of the first church built on the Vestmannaeyjar islands, before the conversion to Christianity.
Here are some more photos from different angles of this church.
It is surrounded by quite a dramatic scenery as you can see from the photos.
Right next to the church is also a Landlyst museum. You can see the small part of this building in the photo above at the bottom right corner. It dont really know what museum it is exactly or what landlyst means.
All the solidified lava behind the church flowed there in the year of 1973 when the big eruption happened on the island.
In the photo below you can see a structure that was a water tank at some point but oncoming lava flow destroyed most of it, along with hundreds of houses.
