Birndal

Bindal lies at the southern end of Helgeland, where fjords reach into a country of wooded hills and mountains. Vassås was an old church site in the district: a priest there is recorded in 1432, and by 1589 its church was attached to the parish of Brønnøy. A description from 1723 records Sámi from the Bindal mountains gathering at Vassås in summer. The old church was replaced by an octagonal timber building in 1733.