Sylte Church

Sylte Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Valldal, which is also known as Sylte. It is one of the two churches for the Norddal parish which is part of the Nordre Sunnmøre prosti in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1863 by the architect Nils Andersen Liaaen. The church seats about 350 people.
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to 1432, but the church existed earlier. Very little is known about the location of the original stave church, but around 1620, the building was taken down and moved across the fjord and rebuilt on the site of the Norddal Church. For a time, there was no church in Sylte. In 1812, a small chapel located at Døving, just upriver from Sylte, was moved to Sylte and it became the new Sylte Church. In 1860, residents began talking about building a larger church in Sylte to serve the growing population. In 1863, a new church was completed on the same site as the older church.

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