Mariakirken
Mariakirken stands in Middelalderparken, within the site of Oslo’s medieval city. You see the foundations of a church that began as a wooden building around the mid-eleventh century.
A stone church followed in the twelfth century, then gained a Gothic choir, brick walls, two western towers and a cruciform layout. From 1314, its provost also served as Norway’s chancellor, while King Haakon V and Queen Euphemia of Rügen were buried here. Swedish forces burned the church in 1523, and demolition followed in 1542.
Archaeological excavations from 1867 onward revealed both stone walls and traces of the earlier wooden church. The protected park also contains Clemenskirken and the old royal estate, while buried archaeological layers prevent new construction.
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