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Prestbakkakirkja is a lutherna church in Hrútafjörður. Prestbakki inHrútafjörðurhas been a churchplacesince1100, but becameparsonage1711.

The church wasst mary's churchin catholic tradition and stood in the same dedicated placeinside the cemetryuntil1874. The last godhouse on the same old ancient place was a turfchurch, built1805. When the turfchurch was tored downin 1874,there was a wooden church builtoutside the cemetry to the north. She was tored down in1957, when a church made out of concrete was made to the north of the wooden church.

The church that is now in Prestbakki, was built on the years1954-1957 after drawings that   Guðjóns Samúelssonamade. Ásmundur Guðmundsson bishop dedicatedthe church26. may1957. The church´s selingis bult the same as in the wooden church.