Hofskirkja Turf Church
Hofskirkja, Iceland
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Added by Paul Kestel
Hofskirkja is the last turf roofed church constructed in Iceland. It also has a mounded cemetery surrounding it.
Please be respectful and do not walk on the the mounded graves. When we visited we saw other tourists walking all over them.
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