Masi, Norway Explained

Native Name:
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Finnmark#Norway
Pushpin Label Position:top
Pushpin Label:Masi
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Norway
Subdivision Name1:Northern Norway
Subdivision Name2:Finnmark
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Vest-Finnmark
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Subdivision Name4:Kautokeino
Utc Offset1:+01:00
Utc Offset1 Dst:+02:00
Postal Code Type:Post Code
Postal Code:9525 Maze
Elevation M:282
Elevation Footnotes:[1]
Coordinates:69.4436°N 23.6669°W

,, or is a village in Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

The village is located along the river Kautokeinoelva, a tributary of the Alta river. about south of the town of Alta and about 60 kilometres north of the village of Kautokeino. The village is made up predominantly of Sami people, a non-Norwegian group indigenous to the Fennoscandinavian peninsula .[2]

Masi Church has stood in the town since the 17th century. The present church building is a reconstruction built after the original was torched by German soldiers during the Nazi occupation of Norway in World War II.

During the late 1970s, the Norwegian government planned to construct the Alta Hydroelectric Power Station downstream, which was expected to flood Masi, upstream Kautokeino, and surrounding reindeer pasture. Masi was among several sites of protest in what became known later as the Alta controversy.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Masi. yr.no. Norwegian. 2013-04-01.
  2. Web site: Máze. Store norske leksikon. Store norske leksikon. Norwegian. 2013-04-01.