The Christian's Church, completed in 1963 and dedicated to the Danish king Christian X, is one of the most striking modernist buildings in the Faroes. The plan is a Greek cross with a square central crossing tower, the walls clad in local basalt with copper-roofed gables, and the whole structure orients itself on the hilltop above the Klaksvík harbour. The architect, Peter Koch, drew on both medieval Faroese stone-built churches and Scandinavian modernism.
Inside, the nave is wide and unornamented, with a tapestry-like altar fresco of the Last Supper by the Danish artist Joakim Skovgaard. A wooden Faroese fishing boat — a real boat, not a model — hangs from the central crossing as a memorial to lost fishermen, a Faroese tradition. The font is the church's most curious feature: a 4,000-year-old basalt cup originally used in pre-Christian Faroese ritual, reused here as the baptismal font.