In the Good Templar Hall, 7 Su\u00f0urgata, the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Folk Museum has opened the exhibition \u201eGutt\u00f3 \u2013 House of the Templars, cradle of social and cultural life for 130 years\u201c, which sheds light on the history of the Order of the Good Templars in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and the extensive social and cultural work that has taken place in the house over the years.<\/p>\n
The Good Templar Lodge Dan\u00edelsher is the oldest active society in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, and the Good Templar Hall is the oldest meeting house in the country, being closely connected to all cultural and social life in the town throughout its history.\u00a0The idea for the G\u00fatt\u00f3 building arose on 4 October 1885 at a meeting of the Morgunstj\u00f6rnunnar lodge, and the building was consecrated on 17 December 1886 amid great celebrations. The Good Templar House is the first building that the Good Templars erected in this country for their activities. The building was considered large, accommodating around 300 people, and the story goes that almost all the inhabitants of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur could fit inside at once, at a time when the town's population was just over 400. The building was the first proper community hall for the people of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and, for a long time, the centre of all cultural life in the town. It hosted a great deal of social activity, meetings and entertainments; plays were performed there, and singing and dancing events were held. The first meeting of the town council was held in the building, and for around 20 years the council held its meetings there. In the winter of 1907-08, the Flensborg School's teacher training college was housed in the building. Several societies were also founded there, including the Hl\u00edf Workers' Union and the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Seamen's Union. <\/p>\n
The exhibition \u2013 G\u00fatt\u00f3 \u2013 was opened on the 108th anniversary of the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur on 1 June and will be open every weekend this summer from 11 am to 5 pm. Admission is free.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00cd G\u00f3\u00f0templarah\u00fasinu, Su\u00f0urg\u00f6tu 7, hefur Bygg\u00f0asafn Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar sett upp s\u00fdninguna \u201eG\u00fatt\u00f3 \u2013 H\u00fas templara, vagga f\u00e9lags- og menningarl\u00edfs \u00ed 130 \u00e1r\u201c \u00fear sem lj\u00f3si er varpa\u00f0 \u00e1 s\u00f6gu G\u00f3\u00f0templarareglunnar \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i og \u00fev\u00ed mikla f\u00e9lags- og menningarstarfi sem fram hefur fari\u00f0 \u00ed h\u00fasinu \u00ed gegnum t\u00ed\u00f0ina. G\u00f3\u00f0templarast\u00fakan Dan\u00edelsher er elsta starfandi f\u00e9lag \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i og […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13035"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}