Iceland’s countryside is dotted with humble white churches with red roofs and short steeples. They were predominately built from 1890 through 1940 and reflect the colors of the Lutheran Church and Denmark. So this blue, modern church at the Úthlíð farm is very unusual. Úthlíðarkirkja stands near the ruins of a pagan temple. The Church of Uthlid was built in 2006 by the farmer Bjorn Sigurdsson to commemorate his deceased wife. Mrs. Ágúst Ólafsdóttir died in 2004.
