

A village built entirely out of church-related facilities and housing in rural southern Iceland ends at lush sweeping green hills. Eighty percent of the country's citizens are members of the Lutheran National Church of Iceland, a statistic confirmed by Iceland's National Registry, which interestingly enough, documents the religious affiliation of every citizen. Though the church system is very much a part of Iceland's culture and towns, church attendance is very low, as it is in other Nordic countries.