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![The church at Moster, as drawn by Johan Meyer in 1897.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_206-2.jpg?itok=SGdrZdqC)
Moster- The old church
Moster is mentioned as a church site already in the time of Olav Tryggvason. According to the sagas the king is supposed to have laid the foundations for the first church at Moster when he came there in 995. That building would have been a stave church - the church standing there today – a stone church with a nave and narrower, straight chancel – was probably founded around 1100. In 1874 a new church was built at Moster. Then the old church was bought by The Society for the Preservation of Norwegian Ancient Monuments, which is still the owner.
![Sagvåg in the early 1900s, with the gate saw and the shipyard to the right in the picture.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_210-1.jpg?itok=Vt4qxW9t)
Sagvåg
The pit saw on the property of the farm Valvatna, is the origin of the name Sagvåg. The sawmill is mentioned as early as 1564. The name of the place at that time was Fuglesalt, but soon there is only talk of Saugvog.
![Ferstad, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_235-2-2.jpg?itok=C804au8t)
Ferstad
Ferstad is well worth a visit. The farm lies on a little hillock south of Lekven: a beautiful official residence from the 1700s.
![Lyse chapel, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_238-1.jpg?itok=QUOPChLG)
Lyse chapel
The small white-painted chapel with the red brick tiled roof just south of the monastery ruins at Lyse was built in 1663 as a local chapel for the monastery estate, following the takeover of the property by the District Recorder (Stiftskriver) Niels Hanssøn Schmidt two years previously. The chapel, with its harmonic proportions, lies in the cultural landscape beside the grand monastery estate, witness to a time gone by. But even today, there is a tradition of high mass on the 2nd day of Ascension in Lyse Chapel.
![Lyse Monastery, reconstruction](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-239_lysekloster.jpg?itok=bc_kHrFJ)
![The monks leave their mark at Lysekloster](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/os_24.jpg?itok=Q5bQc7i9)
Lysekloster- The monks and nature
Lysekloster was the largest agricultural property in the country when it was phased out during the Reformation in 1537. In its prime this cloister encompassed two-thirds of all the farms in Os. The monks introduced and cultivated new plant species and it was probably they who stocked the waters with fish not indigenous to the area. This legacy from the Middle Ages has left a lasting mark.