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Simple, but well-maintained modern church without a tower. Built as the Reformed Church (Liberated), after the merger in 2023 NGK.

The church in Hopen is a long church dating from 1892. The long church replaced an octagonal wooden church from 1749. At Christmas 1842, lightning struck and destroyed the tower and damaged the building "significantly". Due to lack of maintenance, the building from the 1880s was so dilapidated and "airy" that it could not be repaired. In 1890, the government gave permission to demolish the 1749 building and build a new one on the same plot.

Hopperstad stavkirke was built around the year 1130, and it stands on its original site. The church is owned by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments which funded its restoration (1885-1891).

The cemetery has around 420 tombstones surrounded by a stone wall, reconstructed in December 2018 by ESJF. The lines marking the position of the original wall are visible as some foundations still remain. The majority of the tombstones are standing in well-maintained. However, around two thirds of the perimeter fence was found to be damaged, partially collapsed, or missing.

The church in Hörby dates from the middle of the 12th century with Carl Stone Master as builder. At the end of the 19th century, the church was in a deplorable state and on the initiative of the vicar Lundegård (father of the author Axel Lundegård and the artist Justus Lundegård), a restoration of the pulpit, the ornaments of the altar and the baptismal font was undertaken in 1888. On 20 December 1896, the new church, built in the neo-Gothic style, was completed.

Hordabø Church, formerly Bø Church, is a long church from 1875. There was a church on the site since the Middle Ages which was probably a stave church, but it is not known when it was built and when it was demolished again. When the church is mentioned again in 1686, it is a wooden church with a tower. The builder Jon Jonsen Alvær built the present church according to the designs of the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. The church underwent extensive restoration in 1949.

The Horg church, which was consecrated in 1893, is a monumental cruciform church built according to the designs of the architect Carl Johan Bergström. It is characterized by a neo-Gothic and Swiss style and is very well preserved both inside and out.

The cemetery has about 20 tombstones that have been preserved. The site was fenced by ESJF in November 2019.

The period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. First, it appears on the cadastral map of the 19th century and the earliest preserved gravestone dates from 1897. The cemetery was fenced by ESJF in August 2016.

The Hornindal church is a long church dating from 1856. The choir and the western part of the nave are lower and narrower than the central part of the nave, and above the middle of the roof there is a thin octagonal turret. The church was designed by the architect Rolfsen, but it is also characterised by local tradition and Linstow's typographical designs.