Åram Church

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Åram Church (Åram kyrkje) is a wooden, white parish church in Vanylven Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Åram in the northern part of the municipality and serves the Åram parish, which is part of the Søre Sunnmøre prosti within the Diocese of Møre. The church is active and seats about 300 people.

History and features
The Åram area used to belong to the Sande Church parish. In the 1910s, after plans to build a new church on nearby Gurskøya and divide the parish, the people of Åram asked for their own church so they wouldn’t have to boat across a fjord for services. The result was a new church for Åram, designed and built by Sivert Storegjerde. Åram Church was completed and consecrated on 20 January 1927, and it is built in a long church design.

In 1964, the building was enlarged to add bathrooms near the main entrance. On 1 January 2002, the mainland Åram portion of Sande Municipality was transferred to Vanylven Municipality, and the church came under the Vanylven parish council.