Saint Olav's Church stands in the village of Kirkjubøur on the island of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands. It was built before 1200 and is described as the oldest church of the Faroe Islands. It is said to have served as the seat of the Catholic bishop of the Faroe Islands until the Reformation, though that claim is marked as doubtful.
The church is known for its fifteenth-century pew ends, called the Kirkjubøstólarnir. Fourteen survive, eleven of them showing the Apostles and three showing other biblical figures. They were moved to the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen in 1875, after the church was restored, and returned to the Faroe Islands in 2002.
A runestone found inside the church in 1832 is now held by the National Museum of the Faroe Islands. The pew ends have appeared on Faroese postage stamps in 1980, 1984 and 2001.
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