Akureyri Church, or Akureyrarkirkja, stands in the center of Akureyri in northern Iceland. It is an active Lutheran parish church of the Church of Iceland. Guðjón Samúelsson designed it, and it was completed in 1940.
The organ has 3,200 pipes. Bas-reliefs on the nave balcony are by Ásmundur Sveinsson. The altarpiece dates from 1863 and was designed by Edvard Lehmann. J. Wippell and Company of Exeter in Britain designed and made the windows. The baptismal font is Italian white marble by Corrado Vigni, and a second font with an angel is a replica of a work by Bertel Thorvaldsen, whose original is in Copenhagen Cathedral.
Vandals damaged the church in 2017, causing about 20 million Icelandic krónur in damage, roughly 157,000 U.S. dollars.
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