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Eyrarbakki church was consecrated in December 1890.
The leading initiator for the building of the church was the parish minister, Rev. Jón Björnsson and as fate would allow it, in 1892, the first funeral at the church was his one.
The church is designed by Jóhann Fr. Jónsson, Eyrarbakki’s primary carpenter in the decade of 1880-90, but he died during the construction of the church.
The church seats 230-240 people and it’s most historic artifact is the altarpiece. The altarpiece is a picture of Jesus, talking to the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well (Jac. 4, 13-14) and underneath the picture it is written: “Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.”