page_title: Ålvundeid Church
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ålvundeid Church / History
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Ålvundeid kirke er en åttekantet kirke fra 1848 i Sunndal kommune, Møre og Romsdal fylke. Klippet til annet format. This is a photo of a monument in Norway, number: 85964 in the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage database.
context_page_description: Ålvundeid Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sunndal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ålvundeidet. It is the church for the Ålvundeid parish which is part of the Indre Nordmøre prosti in the Diocese of Møre. The red, wooden church was built in an octagonal style in 1848 by the architect Ole Pedersen Tøfte. The church seats about 230 people.
context_section_description: The earliest existing historical records of a church in the Ålvund area date back to 1309.  The original church was built in the village of Ålvund, about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north of the present location in Ålvundeid.  The old church was demolished at some time before the 1800s.
caption: View of the church
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