When these wooden church models entered the museum, they were registered (with a question mark) as reliquaries or as tabernacles for the storage of the consecrated Host. In the 1970s, however, Bernt C. Lange convincingly demonstrated that such miniature churches served as crowning elements to tabernacle shrines. The church model from Kinsarvik has a T-shaped…Continue reading 12 Church Models from Kinsarvik and Borgund
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7 Church Model from Kinsarvik
Miniature churches such as these served as crowning elements to tabernacle shrines (see the reconstruction from Urnes, no. 2). In Norway, a total of four church models are preserved, and in Sweden two. The church model from Kinsarvik has a T-shaped ground plan with a projecting central tower. The Bergen collection holds similar church models…Continue reading 7 Church Model from Kinsarvik