Saksun

Saksun is a picturesque village near the north-west coast of the Faroese island of Streymoy, Saksun lies in the bottom of what used to be an inlet of the sea, surrounded by high mountains, the village has a Church and Museum. The Museum occupies a seventeenth century farm called Duvugardur.

Church of Saksun

The Church was originally built in Tjornuvik, but in 1858 it was disassembled, carried over the mountains and reassembled in Saksun.