While in Stavanger for the missionary zone conference and the seminary teachers training meeting we went into the city to see what it looked like. This is the bryggen (warehouse wharf) area where the fish, flower market and many restuarants are. It is now a popular shopping area.
Standing at the same spot but looking out into the harbor. A large cruise ship is just getting ready to leave the dock.
Sister Marcia Nelson, from Boise, Idaho came to Haugesund to look for some of her ancesters farms. She is also writing a book about the king who unified Norway into a nation instead of many fuedal kingdoms, Harold the Fairhair, or Harold Hårfarge. He had a farm near here and is said to buried just outside of Haugesund. She and Sister Humphrey are behind an old church build about 1250 A.D. by one of his great-grandsons, King Olav the holy.
This is the same church. The people in the photo are Elder and Sister Humphrey, and Marcia Nelson. We are standing next to a piller that is called the Virgin Mary's sewing needle. It started leaning towards the church and old legend has it that when it touches the church, it will be the day of final judgement. To prolong the day of judgement priests have several times ordered that the top of the piller be cut back and/or pulled the piller back away from the church and propped it up.
Haugesund holds a jazz festival every year. It is called the Herring Jazz Festival (or Sillajazzfestivalen). Booths are set up all over town to sell anything and everything and people come from all over Scandinavia for this festival. This is a picture of the wharf area with booths on the waters edge. There are boats tied up to the harbor four or five deep.
While in Stavanger for the missionary zone conference and the seminary teachers training meeting we went into the city to see what it looked like. This is the bryggen (warehouse wharf) area where the fish, flower market and many restuarants are. It is now a popular shopping area.
Standing at the same spot but looking out into the harbor. A large cruise ship is just getting ready to leave the dock.
Sister Marcia Nelson, from Boise, Idaho came to Haugesund to look for some of her ancesters farms. She is also writing a book about the king who unified Norway into a nation instead of many fuedal kingdoms, Harold the Fairhair, or Harold Hårfarge. He had a farm near here and is said to buried just outside of Haugesund. She and Sister Humphrey are behind an old church build about 1250 A.D. by one of his great-grandsons, King Olav the holy.
This is the same church. The people in the photo are Elder and Sister Humphrey, and Marcia Nelson. We are standing next to a piller that is called the Virgin Mary's sewing needle. It started leaning towards the church and old legend has it that when it touches the church, it will be the day of final judgement. To prolong the day of judgement priests have several times ordered that the top of the piller be cut back and/or pulled the piller back away from the church and propped it up.
Haugesund holds a jazz festival every year. It is called the Herring Jazz Festival (or Sillajazzfestivalen). Booths are set up all over town to sell anything and everything and people come from all over Scandinavia for this festival. This is a picture of the wharf area with booths on the waters edge. There are boats tied up to the harbor four or five deep.
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