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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = Kirkja
|image_skyline = Kirkja, Faroe Islands.JPG
|image_caption = Kirkja on Fugloy
|pushpin_map = Faroe Islands
|pushpin_label_position = top
|subdivision_type = State
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Kingdom of Denmark}}
|subdivision_type1 = Constituent country
|subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Faroe Islands}}
|subdivision_type2 = Island
|subdivision_name2 = [[Fugloy]]
|subdivision_type3 = Municipality
|subdivision_name3 = Fugloyar kommuna
|area_footnotes =
|area_total_km2 =
|population_as_of = 29 April 2025
|population_footnotes = <ref>{{Cite web|title=IB01010 Fólkatalsbroytingar skiftar á fødd, deyð, flutt, bygd og mánaðir (1985-2025)|url=https://statbank.hagstova.fo/pxweb/fo/H2/H2__IB__IB01/fo_vital_md.px/|access-date=2025-04-29|website=Hagtalsgrunnur}}</ref>
|population_total = 30
|population_density_km2 =
|timezone = [[Greenwich Mean Time|GMT]]
|utc_offset =
|timezone_DST = [[European Summer Time|EST]]
|utc_offset_DST = +1
|coordinates = {{coord|62|19|10|N|6|18|51|W|region:DK|display=inline,title}}

|postal_code_type = Postal code 
|postal_code = FO 766
|area_code =
|blank_name = [[Köppen climate classification|Climate]]
|blank_info = [[Oceanic climate#Subpolar variety (Cfc, Cwc)|Cfc]]
|blank1_name =
|blank1_info =
|website =
|footnotes =
}}

'''Kirkja''' ({{langx|da|Kirke}}) is a village on the island of [[Fugloy]], [[Faroe Islands]]. It is located on the south-tip of the island, and its land is stretching all over the western side of the island, including a small enclave in the now uninhabited ''Skarðsvík.'' Here archaeologists have located an old settlement that has probably been only a part-time settlement used either by people from Kirkja or [[Hattarvík]].

==Transportation==
Kirkja is one of two villages on the island of Fugloy that are connected both by the road built in the 1980s and by the ferry that connects both Kirkja and [[Hattarvík]] to [[Hvannasund]] on the larger island of [[Viðoy]], and in the last two decades the island can also be reached by [[helicopter]] either from the national airport in [[Vágar]],<ref name="ssl_fo">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ssl.fo/en/timetable/helicopter/timetable|title=Timetable|website=ssl.fo|accessdate=27 March 2025|language=en}}</ref> the national capital of [[Tórshavn]]<ref name="ssl_fo"/> or the regional capital [[Klaksvík]].<ref name="ssl_fo"/>

''Kirkja'' means ''church'' and ''Fugloy'' means ''bird-island'' in [[Faroese language|Faroese]]. From here there is a view over the sound [[Fugloyarfjørður]] towards the capes of [[Svínoy]] and also towards the northernmost cape of the Faroes, [[Enniberg]] on Viðoy – one of the highest cliffs in the world – and the rounded isthmus of [[Viðareiði]] that has been a favorite motif for Faeroese and foreign painters throughout the past century because of its tremendously beautiful sunset. Kirkja thereby offers panoramas in the Faroes, making it a tourist attraction.

==Climate==
{{Weather box
|location = Kirkja, [[Fugloy]], 53 m.a.s.l.
|metric first = Y
|single line = Y
|Jan record high C = 13.4
|Feb record high C = 12.0
|Mar record high C = 13.0
|Apr record high C = 14.9
|May record high C = 19.8
|Jun record high C = 20.0
|Jul record high C = 21.3
|Aug record high C = 20.8
|Sep record high C = 20.6
|Oct record high C = 18.8
|Nov record high C = 13.0
|Dec record high C = 14.5
|year record high C = 21.3
|Jan high C = 6.7
|Feb high C = 5.8
|Mar high C = 6.5
|Apr high C = 7.2
|May high C = 9.2
|Jun high C = 11.2
|Jul high C = 12.8
|Aug high C = 13.4
|Sep high C = 11.8
|Oct high C = 9.5
|Nov high C = 7.5
|Dec high C = 6.6
|year high C = 9.0
|Jan mean C = 4.6
|Feb mean C = 3.7
|Mar mean C = 4.3
|Apr mean C = 5.2
|May mean C = 7.0
|Jun mean C = 9.0
|Jul mean C = 10.6
|Aug mean C = 11.2
|Sep mean C = 9.7
|Oct mean C = 7.5
|Nov mean C = 5.8
|Dec mean C = 4.4
|year mean C = 6.9
|Jan low C = 2.4
|Feb low C = 1.5
|Mar low C = 1.8
|Apr low C = 2.9
|May low C = 4.9
|Jun low C = 7.0
|Jul low C = 8.8
|Aug low C = 9.3
|Sep low C = 7.7
|Oct low C = 5.5
|Nov low C = 3.8
|Dec low C = 2.2
|year low C = 4.8
|Jan record low C = -6.2
|Feb record low C = -5.5
|Mar record low C = -9.1
|Apr record low C = -4.2
|May record low C = -2.4
|Jun record low C = 1.5
|Jul record low C = 4.1
|Aug record low C = 4.9
|Sep record low C = 0.9
|Oct record low C = -2.0
|Nov record low C = -3.2
|Dec record low C = -6.2
|year record low C = -9.1
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 94
|Feb precipitation mm = 87
|Mar precipitation mm = 94
|Apr precipitation mm = 84
|May precipitation mm = 67
|Jun precipitation mm = 66
|Jul precipitation mm = 80
|Aug precipitation mm = 83
|Sep precipitation mm = 85
|Oct precipitation mm = 111
|Nov precipitation mm = 97
|Dec precipitation mm = 93
|year precipitation mm = 1040
|unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 18
|Feb precipitation days = 17
|Mar precipitation days = 18
|Apr precipitation days = 12
|May precipitation days = 13
|Jun precipitation days = 9.8
|Jul precipitation days = 9.7
|Aug precipitation days = 13
|Sep precipitation days = 15
|Oct precipitation days = 17
|Nov precipitation days = 18
|Dec precipitation days = 15
|year precipitation days = 175
|source 1 = [[Danish Meteorological Institute]]<ref name= DMI>{{cite web
| url = http://www.dmi.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/Rapporter/TR/1998/tr98-14.pdf
| title = The Climate of The Faroe Islands - with Climatological Standard Normals, 1961-1990 Greenland
| publisher = Danish Meteorological Institute
| accessdate = August 19, 2015}}</ref>
}}

==See also==
* [[List of towns in the Faroe Islands]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{commons-inline}}
*[http://www.faroeislands.dk/pages/KirkjaIndex.htm Faroeislands.dk: Kirkja] Images and description of all cities on the Faroe Islands.

[[Category:Populated places in the Faroe Islands]]

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