Skarð, Iceland

Skarð
Skarð
Village
	Skarðskirkja, the Skarð church
	Location of the Municipality of Rangárþing ytra
	Skarð Location of Skarð in Iceland
	Coordinates: 63°45′N 20°37′W / 63.750°N 20.617°W
Country	Iceland
Constituency	South Constituency
Region	Southern Region
Municipality	Rangárþing ytra
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)

Skarð is a small village and church parish in southwestern Iceland in the Rangárþing ytra municipality (before 2002: Landsveit), Rangárvallasýsla county, and Southern Region, along road 26 (Landvegur), northwest of Hekla.

The present Skarð church was built in 1931. The parish shares a priest with four other church parishes (Árbæjar, Haga, Kálfholts, Marteinstungu) under the name Fellsmúlaprestakall.^[1] This parish and church is called "Skarðskirkja á Landi" to disambiguate from other places named Skarð. The original catholic church was devoted to archangel Michael.^[2]

References

^ Fellsmúlaprestakall, Suðurland deanery, Church of Iceland.
^ Skarðskirkja á Landi (1931), Kirkjukort.net

64°00′18″N 20°05′42″W / 64.0049°N 20.0950°W / 64.0049; -20.0950

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[1] Fellsmúlaprestakall, Suðurland deanery, Church of Iceland.

[2] Skarðskirkja á Landi (1931), Kirkjukort.net

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