Thinking about going to church during the Holy Week? To experience a church service or a mass in a language that you don’t understand can be a soulful experience, but some churches in Reykjavík also offer services in English and other languages.
If you are staying in central Reykjavík here are four downtown churches.
Read more: Shortened opening hours during the Easter long weekend
Iceland’s only Catholic church, Christ the King Cathedral, is located in a beautiful building at Hávallagata street 14-16. Lutherans can choose between three churches: Hallgrímskirkja, the capital’s most prominent landmark (see above) and the small Reykjavík Cathedral (Dómkirkjan) at Austurvöllur square are owned by the National Evangelical Lutheran Church (to which 80% of Iceland’s population belong), and the Free Church (Fríkirkjan) in Reykjavík, an independent congregation stationed in a lovely old wood and corrugated iron church by Lake Tjörnin (the Pond).
Thinking about going to church during the Holy Week? To experience a church service or a mass in a language that you don’t understand can be a soulful experience, but some churches in Reykjavík also offer services in English and other languages.
If you are staying in central Reykjavík here are four downtown churches.
Read more: Shortened opening hours during the Easter long weekend
Iceland’s only Catholic church, Christ the King Cathedral, is located in a beautiful building at Hávallagata street 14-16. Lutherans can choose between three churches: Hallgrímskirkja, the capital’s most prominent landmark (see above) and the small Reykjavík Cathedral (Dómkirkjan) at Austurvöllur square are owned by the National Evangelical Lutheran Church (to which 80% of Iceland’s population belong), and the Free Church (Fríkirkjan) in Reykjavík, an independent congregation stationed in a lovely old wood and corrugated iron church by Lake Tjörnin (the Pond).
