here are some of Iceland's super picturesque turf buildings. First up, the turf-clad stave church, above, based upon the foundation of a small medieval chapel which was uncovered during ...

From atop the massive church, visitors get majestic views ... others will come around to his point of view. Iceland’s turf houses are part of a common northern European architectural tradition ...

An outer layer, made of turf cut into strips ... Alamy) Contemporary church attendance in Iceland is very low, with only 10 per cent of the population reporting that they go to church once ...

was the last turf church built in the traditional Icelandic style. It is one of six churches in Iceland that are preserved as historical monuments and it’s maintained by the National Museum of ...

Turf has been used as an architectural material for thousands of years by cultures across Europe and the Arctic since the Neolithic period. In Iceland, these green-cloaked dwellings melt into the ...

On the outside, the roof grows grass. I read that the traditional kind of turf house is not built in Iceland anymore, but new ...

Built and enlarged over the 18th and 19th Centuries, and used as a priest's house as well as a farmhouse, Glaumbær is Iceland's most extensive and intact group of turf buildings. The main complex ...

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"Turf farms and homes were in every part of Iceland and have been the prevailing building method for generations," Hannes Lárusson, founder of the Islenski Baerinn (Turf House Museum) in ...