Christianity was brought to the Faroes as early as AD 1000, and today 95 percent of the population practices some denomination of Christianity, with over 80 percent affiliated with the Church of the Faroe Islands (a type of Lutheranism). Even the tiniest village has a church, and many of them are very old and very beautiful. All of them are similar in structure: a simple, rectangular building with a cross protruding into the sky and a small walled-in graveyard. Sunday in the Faroes is a day of rest and prayer, and every business is closed.

The Church of Saksun was by far the most beautiful that I came across in the islands. It was originally built in Tjørnuvík, but was carried over the mountain pass and reassembled in 1858 in the picturesque valley next to the tiny village of Saksun.