Tórshavn centre, with Tórshavn Cathedral | the cathedral and Bryggjubakki street ( left ) and Undir Bryggjubakka street ( right ).

* Tórshavn Cathedral, the second oldest church in the country.

But before the opening of the Løgting, there is a ceremony, which starts just before 11 in the morning, where the Faroese priests, the members of the Faroese Parliament, the head of the Police, some Danish officials and some other important people will walk in procession to the Cathedral of Tórshavn ( Dómkirkjan, earlier called Havnar Kirkja ).

Tórshavn Cathedral

Tórshavn Cathedral ( in Faroese: Havnar Kirkja, or Dómkirkjan ) is the second oldest received church of the Faroe Islands, on Tinganes in the old town of Tórshavn.

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According to Færeyinga Saga there was an ancient institution on the headland Tinganes in Tórshavn on the island of Streymoy.

The bishopric at Kirkjubøur, south of Tórshavn, where remains of the cathedral may be seen, was also abolished.

In 1975 the causeway between Viðoy and Borðoy was constructed, in 1986 a similar one between Borðoy and Kunoy was established, and in 1992 the capital Tórshavn was granted a first-class connection to the northern parts of the islands, creating the infrastructural prerequisites for a mobile society on the mainland.

The Vikings established their parliament on the Tinganes peninsula in 850 CE, thus Tórshavn was made capital of Faroe Islands and has remained so ever since.

The main ting was established on Tinganes in Tórshavn 825.

Færeyinga Saga says: " the ting stead of the Faroese was on Streymoy, and there is the harbour that is called Tórshavn ".

Unlike other Faroese villages, Tórshavn was never a distinct farming community.

In 1271, a royal trade monopoly was established in Tórshavn by the Norwegian Crown.

All of these things combined with the fact that Tórshavn was the tingstead of the islands, influenced the town ’ s development.

The population was divided into three equally large groups made up of farmers, their families and servants, trade and government officials and people who owned no land and therefore not much else ; this included the landless proletariat from the villages that during this period came to Tórshavn in search of work.

However, in 1709 Tórshavn was hit by a plague of smallpox, killing nearly the entire population.

Still, it was during the latter half of the 18th century that Tórshavn started to develop into a small town.

B36 Tórshavn was founded on 28 March 1936.

B36 has an arch rival, HB Tórshavn, which was founded in 1904, the first club in Tórshavn.

When B36 was founded, they battled with rivals HB Tórshavn for the rights to the Gundadalur Stadium, but the teams played a lot of matches against each other that year.

The club was founded in 1904, and is based in the capital, Tórshavn.

HB Tórshavn was founded in October 1904.

The mayor of Tórshavn at the time, Mads Andrias Winther, was HB's first chairman.

Two months later, on July 18, 1909, a second match was organized against TB Tvøroyri, this time held in Tórshavn.

The Faroese Communist Party () was founded at a conference in Tórshavn 14th-15th of June 1975.

Later a local section was organized in Tórshavn.

An old furniture store in the capital Tórshavn was converted into a TV studio in 1983, and on April 1, 1984 the first Faroese programme was launched ; however, private local TV associations had by then been transmitting for six years.

In 1927, Tórshavn had a modern harbour built.

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, the national capital of Tórshavn or the regional capital Klaksvík.

Unemployment rose, up to as much as 20 % in Tórshavn, with it being higher in the outlying islands.

It became possible to drive from the capital Tórshavn to Vágur and Tvøroyri in the south, to Fuglafjørður and Klaksvík in the north, and to the airport at Sørvágur in the west.

There is an extensive bus network, with red Bussleiðin town buses serving Tórshavn and blue Bygdaleiðir, which means " village route ", buses connecting the rest of the islands.

Bussleiðin is the name of the urban bus service, which has five routes and is operated by the Tórshavn municipality.

Buses within Tórshavn have been completely free of charge since 2007.

The Norröna of Smyril Line at Tórshavn in 1997.

Their largest vessel is the new Smyril, a roll-on / roll-off ferry which maintains the link between Tórshavn and the southern islands.

Tórshavn (; Danish: Thorshavn ) is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands.

All through the Middle Ages the narrow peninsula jutting out into the sea made up the main part of Tórshavn.

Sources do not mention a built-up area in Tórshavn until after the Protestant Reformation in 1539.

Early on, Tórshavn became the center of the monopoly trade, thereby being the only legal place for the islanders to sell and buy goods.

Tórshavn 1839.

All through the Middle Ages, the narrow peninsula jutting out into the sea made up the main part of Tórshavn.

According to a document from 1271, two ships would sail regularly to Tórshavn from Bergen with cargoes of salt, timber and cereal.

Tórshavn therefore had more contact with the outside world than did the other villages.

Under the Norwegian, and then Danish rule, government officials made Tórshavn their home.

Sources do not mention a built-up area in Tórshavn until after the Protestant reformation in 1539.