Saksun

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View of Saksun from the lake

Saksun is a village near the north-west coast of the Faroese island of Streymoy.

Population: 34
Postal code (Zip): FO 436
Location: 62°14′56″N 7°10′33″W / 62.24889°N 7.17583°W / 62.24889; -7.17583
Municipality: Saksunar

Saksun lies in the bottom of what used to be an inlet of the sea, surrounded by high mountains. The inlet formed a good deep natural harbour, until a storm blocked the inlet with sand. This made the old harbour become a unaccesible seawater lagoon (only accessible by small boats on high tide).

The village has a Church and Museum. The Church was originally built in Tjørnuvík, but in 1858 it was disassembled, carried over the mountains and reassembled in Saksun. The Museum occupies a seventeenth century farm house called Dúvugarður. The house belongs to the farm Dúvugarður which is still an active sheep farm with approx. 300 ewes.