Moster

Moster is an island on Norway's western coast; its sheltered harbour at Mosterhamn was a useful refuge for vessels crossing the North Sea. According to Snorri Sturluson's account, Olaf Tryggvason landed here in 995 and had a church built. Around 1024, a gathering at Moster is traditionally associated with Olaf Haraldsson's Christian law, although the earliest surviving written accounts date from more than a century later.

The surviving stone church was probably built around 1150, rather than in Olaf Tryggvason's time. It continued to serve the community after the Reformation. Its interior includes early seventeenth-century benches and a pulpit dated 1637, evidence of the church's continued adaptation over the centuries.