On the last day of spring, the first Bible museum in northern Europe will open its doors in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, reports Euromag.ru. It will present to the attention of visitors two hundred different editions of the Holy Scriptures. Among them - the first in Scandinavia printed Bible in 1541, made in Sweden, as well as a copy of the Bible from Denmark in 1550.
Old and modern editions of the holy book for all Christians, different in shape, size, style of design, in the Sami, Finnish, Icelandic, Faroese and Greenlandic languages will also be exhibited in the new museum. For quite a long time Norway, where only one percent of the population goes to church, had a reputation as a purely secular country. However, after the release in 2012 of a new edition of the Bible in Norwegian, its sales set a kind of record, surpassing the number of copies purchased in the country by the releases of the world's bestsellers - the biography of Justin Bieber and Fifty Shades of Gray. In total, the inhabitants of Norway bought 150,000 copies of the Bible. For a state with a population of 5.3 million people, this is incredibly high. Recall that until now there were only three Bible museums in the world: in German Munster, Dutch Amsterdam and Washington, USA. The museum in the Norwegian capital was the fourth in this row.
Old and modern editions of the holy book for all Christians, different in shape, size, style of design, in the Sami, Finnish, Icelandic, Faroese and Greenlandic languages will also be exhibited in the new museum. For quite a long time Norway, where only one percent of the population goes to church, had a reputation as a purely secular country. However, after the release in 2012 of a new edition of the Bible in Norwegian, its sales set a kind of record, surpassing the number of copies purchased in the country by the releases of the world's bestsellers - the biography of Justin Bieber and Fifty Shades of Gray. In total, the inhabitants of Norway bought 150,000 copies of the Bible. For a state with a population of 5.3 million people, this is incredibly high. Recall that until now there were only three Bible museums in the world: in German Munster, Dutch Amsterdam and Washington, USA. The museum in the Norwegian capital was the fourth in this row.
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