Elmelunde Church is the oldest stone church on Møn, parts of it dating from around 1080. The plain whitewashed exterior gives no clue to what's inside: the vaulted ceilings are covered in vivid late-medieval frescoes painted around 1480 by the unnamed artist known as the Elmelunde Master, whose work appears across several Møn churches. The scenes — Adam and Eve, the Last Judgement, the Magi — were intended as a Bible for a congregation that could not read.
The frescoes were whitewashed over after the Reformation and only rediscovered in the 1880s, when they were carefully cleaned back. The church sits high on the moraine ridge that runs across the island and the small graveyard around it has long views toward Møns Klint. It is still an active parish church; entry is free outside services.