Hof, Iceland

Hof
Wood and turf Church at Hof.
Hof Location in Iceland
Coordinates: 63°54′24″N 16°42′26″W / 63.90667°N 16.70722°W / 63.90667; -16.70722
Country	Iceland
Constituency	South
Region	Eastern Region
County	Austur-Skaftafellssýsla
Municipality	Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður
Elevation	300 ft (100 m)
Time zone	GMT (UTC+0)
Post Code	785

Hof, in Öræfi, is a cluster of farms in the municipality of Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður in southeast Iceland, close to Vatnajökull glacier, and twenty two kilometres south of Skaftafell in Vatnajökull National Park. It is located on the Route 1 southwest of Höfn, in the narrow strip between the sea coast and the glacier.

A notаble building in Hof is a turf church, which was built in 1883 and is the youngest turf church in Iceland. Since 1951, it belongs to the National Museum of Iceland.