58 min walk
Madserud gård
- High
- Historic site
Place of worship · Oslo
Church of the Cross
Korskirken
- Standing
- High · Heritage site
- Rank
- Rank 89 of 3,842
About Church of the Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross (Korskirken) was a small medieval parish church for the northern part of Oslo's Old Town. Its ruin was rediscovered in 1922 and is now part of Minneparken, together with the ruins of the larger St. Hallvard's Cathedral. When it was built is not known for certain: it is not mentioned in accounts of the fighting in Oslo in 1240 between King Haakon IV and Duke Skule, and a rune stick from the first half of the 13th century, found in 1989, names the Holy Cross Church, suggesting it may be older than 1240.
Checked 2026-11-05 · Source
Place details and sources
- Heritage designation
- Automatically protected cultural heritage Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
- Wikipedia article
- Holy Cross Church, Oslo Wikipedia · Checked 2026-09-09
Common questions
What can you see at the ruin?
The remains of the original altar foundation, with remains of the churchyard wall around the church.
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