Editing Lurøy Municipality (section)

==General information==
[[File:Lovunden II.jpg|thumb|left|View of the island [[Lovund]]]]
Lurøy was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see [[formannskapsdistrikt]] law). On 1 January 1872, the far western island district (population: 289) was separated from Lurøy to become the new [[Træna Municipality]]. This left Lurøy with 1,554 residents. The borders of Lurøy have not changed since that time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jukvam |first=Dag |year=1999 |title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen |url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdf |publisher=[[Statistics Norway|Statistisk sentralbyrå]] |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

===Name===
The municipality (originally the [[prestegjeld|parish]]) is named after the island of [[Lurøya, Nordland|Lurøya]] ({{langx|non|Lúðrøy}}) since the first [[Lurøy Church]] was built there. The first element is {{wikt-lang|non|lúðr}} which means "[[Logging|hollowed log]]" (here probably referring to the form of the mountain of the island). The last element is {{wikt-lang|no|øy}} which means "[[island]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K21BAAAAIAAJ |title=Norske gaardnavne: Nordlands amt |date=1905 |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |edition=16 |location=Kristiania, Norge |pages=154, 156 |language=Norwegian |authorlink=Oluf Rygh}}</ref> Historically, the name of the municipality was spelled ''Lurø''. On 6 January 1908, a [[royal decree|royal resolution]] changed the spelling of the name of the municipality to ''Lurøy''.<ref>{{Cite journal |year=1908 |title=Norsk Lovtidende. 2den Afdeling. 1908. Samling af Love, Resolutioner m.m |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digitidsskrift_2015110481021_001 |journal=[[Norsk Lovtidend]] |language=no |location=Kristiania, Norge |publisher=Grøndahl og Søns Boktrykkeri |page=24}}</ref>

===Coat of arms===
The [[coat of arms]] was granted on 22 August 1986. The official [[blazon]] is ''"[[Or (heraldry)|Or]], a navigation cairn [[Sable (heraldry)|sable]]"'' ({{langx|no|I gull en svart sjøvarde}}). This means the arms have a [[field (heraldry)|field]] (background) that has a [[tincture (heraldry)|tincture]] of [[Or (heraldry)|Or]] which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used. The [[charge (heraldry)|charge]] is black [[Sea mark|navigational cairn]]. This was chosen to symbolize the local dependence on [[fishing]] and [[sailing]] in this island municipality. The arms were designed by Olga Nilsen after a proposal by Dagmar Vilfridadottir Olaisen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic heraldry of Norway - Norske Kommunevåpen |url=https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Lurøy |access-date=2023-02-02 |publisher=Heraldry of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lurøy, Nordland (Norway) |url=https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-18-34.html |access-date=2023-02-02 |website=Flags of the World}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1986-08-22 |title=Godkjenning av våpen og flagg |url=https://lovdata.no/dokument/LF/forskrift/1986-08-22-1752 |access-date=2023-02-02 |website=Lovdata.no |publisher=Norges kommunal- og arbeidsdepartementet |language=no}}</ref>

===Churches===
The [[Church of Norway]] has two parishes ({{lang|no|sokn}}) within Lurøy Municipality. It is part of the [[Nord-Helgeland prosti]] ([[deanery]]) in the [[Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ style="font-size:medium"|'''''Churches in Lurøy'''''
!Parish ({{lang|no|sokn}})!!Church name!!Location of the church!!Year built
|-
|Aldersund||[[Aldersund Church]]||[[Haugland, Lurøy|Haugland]]||1971
|-
|rowspan="3"|Lurøy||[[Lovund Church]]||[[Lovund]]||1960
|-
|[[Lurøy Church]]||[[Lurøya, Nordland|Lurøya]]||1812
|-
|[[Moflag Church]]||[[Moflaget]]||1921
|}