Sample plan of a stave church layout, similar to the Hopperstad. Typical elements of stave churches include a walkway (sval), nave (midtrom), chancel (kor), and apse (apsis). Image by Wikimedia Commons user Hȧkon Andreas Christie.

The interior of the original Hopperstad Church in Vik, Norway, July 13, 2010. Note the canopy of the baldachin, six staves, structural St. Andrew’s crosses, and small windows in the clerestory.

Front façade of the Hopperstad Stave Church replica in Moorhead, Minnesota, 2009. Photographed by Flickr user Amy Meredith.

View of the leper’s window and part of the choir screen separating the chancel from the nave inside the Hopperstad Stave Church replica, April 2, 2017. Photographed by Kaci Johnson.

View of the ceiling inside the Hopperstad Stave Church replica, April 2, 2017. Photographed by Kaci Johnson.

View of the baldachin inside the Hopperstad Stave Church replica, April 2, 2017.

View of the baldachin and the chancel inside the Hopperstad Stave Church replica, April 2, 2017. Photographed by Kaci Johnson.

The Hopperstad Stave Church replica’s exterior walkway, called a svalgang in Norwegian, April 2, 2017. Photographed by Kaci Johnson.

The Hindu Temple of Minnesota in Maple Grove. Photographed by Flickr user Paul Weimer on September 4, 2011.