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Hafnarfjordur Museum

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Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Hafnarfjordur Museum
Phone:
+354 585 5780

Address:
Vesturgata 6, Hafnarfjordur 220, Iceland

Religion in Iceland has been predominantly Christian since its adoption as the state religion by the Althing under the influence of Olaf Tryggvason, the king of Norway, in 999/1000 CE. Before that, between the 9th and 10th century, the prevailing religion among the early Icelanders was the northern Germanic religion, which persisted for centuries even after the official Christianisation of the state. Starting in the 1530s, Iceland, originally Catholic and under the Danish crown, formally switched to Lutheranism with the Icelandic Reformation, which culminated in 1550. The Lutheran Church of Iceland has remained since then the country's state church. Freedom of religion has been granted to the Icelanders since 1874. The Church of Iceland is supported by the government, but all registered religions receive support from a church tax paid by taxpayers over the age of sixteen.Since the late 20th century, and especially the early 21st century, religious life in Iceland has become more diverse, with a decline of Christianity, the rise of unaffiliated people, and the emergence of new religions, notably Heathenry, in Iceland also called Ásatrú, which seeks to reconstruct the Germanic folk religion. A large part of the population remain members of the Church of Iceland, but are actually irreligious and atheists, as demonstrated by demoscopic analyses.
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