Breim Church

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Breim Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Gloppen Municipality, Vestland county, Norway. It sits in the village of Re by the shore of the lake Breimsvatnet. It serves the Breim parish in the Nordfjord deanery of the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white wooden church was built in 1886 in the long church style, designed by Haakon Thorsen, and can seat about 500 people.

The church’s history goes back to the 13th century. The first church here was likely a stave church built at Hetle, about 500 metres northwest of the current site, and records mention the church in 1308. In 1334 the rectory burned in a fire. In 1620 the medieval church was torn down and replaced with a timber-framed cruciform church, but it was poorly built and was replaced again in 1667 with a new cruciform church. In the 1880s, it was decided to tear down the old church and build a larger one a short distance to the southeast to be more central in the village. The new church was completed in 1886, the same year the Breim parish became a separate municipality from Gloppen. It was consecrated on 9 July 1886 by Bishop Fredrik Waldemar Hvoslef. The old church was torn down in 1887. The 1886 church has a nave of 22 by 15 metres and a choir of 8.1 by 6 metres.