Sand-Covered Church

57°42′49″N 10°33′03″E / 57.713534°N 10.55089°E / 57.713534; 10.55089 The Sand-Covered Church (Danish: Den Tilsandede Kirke, also translated as The Buried Church, and also known as Old Skagen Church) is the name given to a late 14th-century church dedicated to Saint Lawrence of Rome. It was a brick church of considerable size, located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southwest of the town centre of Skagen, Denmark. During the last half of the 18th century the church was partially buried by sand from nearby dunes; the congregation had to dig out the entrance each time a service was to be held. The struggle to keep the church free of sand lasted until 1795, when it was abandoned.^[1][2] The church was demolished, leaving the tower with crow-stepped gable as the only part of the original structure still standing.