Gjøvik Church (Gjøvik kirke)

Gjøvik Church has stood at the heart of the town since 1882, built to replace the deteriorating 'new' Hunn Church from 1821 after locals pushed for a church of their own in the growing town. The project got local backing in a very Norwegian way — a lawyer, M.E. Hoff, and his wife funded the new building on the condition that salvageable materials from the old Hunn Church be reused in its construction.

Construction wasn't entirely smooth: the unfinished tower collapsed in a storm at Christmas 1881, partway through the build, before the church was finally completed and consecrated the following year. Designed by architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan in a long-church plan, it's built almost entirely of white-painted wood, yet executed in a distinctly neo-Gothic style — slender pointed arches and Gothic decorative details rendered in timber rather than the stone you'd expect for the style, which is part of what makes it a listed building and one of only a handful of Norwegian churches attempting neo-Gothic in wood.