Town and church site in Skagafjörður, Iceland
Hof in Höfðaströnd is a town and church site in Skagafjörður, Iceland, a little ways up from Hofsós. It was previously a parsonage. The Hof church was built from wood between the years of 1868 and 1870 and it is a protected building.
Hof was a manor where many magistrates lived in previous centuries. This included:
Pálmi Jónsson, founder of Hagkaup, was born in Hof on June 3, 1923, and was brought up there. His daughter Lilja bought Hof and undertook a considerable number of projects there including building a house designed by Studio Granda, which won a design award in 2007. It was also nominated for the European Union Architectural Awards.
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