Nidaros Cathedral

The cathedral was built between 1070 and 1300, and is Norway’s most central church. The constitution of 1814 stipulated that it should be the coronation church for Norway’s regent.

It is the burial church of Olav the Saint. Nidaros Cathedral is Norway’s original archbishop’s church and one of the Nordic countries’ largest medieval churches.

On the return journey, Pietro Querini and his companions stopped in Trondheim and visited Nidaros Cathedral: ‘We arrived in Trondheim and on the following day, Friday, the day of the Lord's Ascension, we were escorted into the city to a very magnificent church dedicated to Saint Olaf, where the rector and all the inhabitants were gathered for mass’.

Helpful links

Official tourist site: https://www.trondheim.no/en/

Nidaros Cathedral: https://www.nidarosdomen.no/