Saksun

Saksun
Village
View of Saksun from the lake
Saksun Location in the Faroe Islands
Coordinates: 62°14′56″N 7°10′33″W / 62.24889°N 7.17583°W / 62.24889; -7.17583Coordinates: 62°14′56″N 7°10′33″W / 62.24889°N 7.17583°W / 62.24889; -7.17583
State	Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country	Faroe Islands
Island	Streymoy
Municipality	Sunda Municipality
Population (1 January 2006)
• Total	30
Time zone	GMT
• Summer (DST)	EST (UTC+1)
Postal code	FO 436
Climate	ET

Saksun (Danish: Saksen) is a village near the northwest coast of the Faroese island of Streymoy, in Sunda Municipality.

Saksun lies in the bottom of what used to be an inlet of the sea, surrounded by high mountains. The inlet formed a good deep natural harbour, until a storm blocked it with sand. The old harbour become an unaccessible seawater lagoon, only accessible by small boats on high tide.

The village has a church and museum. The church was originally built in Tjørnuvík, but in 1858 it was disassembled, carried over the mountains and reassembled in Saksun. The Museum occupies a seventeenth century farm house called Dúvugarður. The house belongs to the Dúvugarður farm, still an active sheep farm with approximately 300 ewes.

Church.

Interior of church

Church

The old farm

Saksun, Postverk Føroya

Down to the beach

Saksun

West coast

Beach