FROZEN FAITH
The churches of Iceland.
When Icelanders are born, they are registered as Christian or Lutheran for religious affiliation. As such, one would expect there to be quite a few churches in the country. The actual figures comes out to about 350 churches, big and small, in the whole of Iceland for approximately 330,000 inhabitants. This seems to be a bit excessive but with how spread out the country is, it makes more sense. The most interesting part of this is that Iceland is the 6th most atheistic country in the world.
It’s an old custom when people get up in the morning to go outside, turn east and make the sign of the cross. This was called collecting the day. This is why churches have been built facing east since ancient times.
