Snåsa

Snåsa lies near the northeastern end of Lake Snåsavatnet, where the settled valley meets the forests and mountains of inland Trøndelag. Its stone church has medieval origins, with the oldest parts dating back many centuries, and was recorded among the principal churches of the district after the Reformation. The surrounding country was also part of the homeland of the Southern Sámi.

The church was mentioned in Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson's land register in 1533 and named the main church of its parish in 1589. In the eighteenth century the missionary Thomas von Westen travelled among the Sámi on behalf of the Danish-Norwegian mission. At Krossgården in Snåsa in 1723, he collected eight Sámi drums, objects associated with religious practices that the mission sought to suppress.