Saksun is a village near the northwest coast of the Faroese island of Streymoy, in Sunda Municipality.
Saksun
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Village
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View of Saksun from the lake
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  Saksun Location in the Faroe Islands | |
| Coordinates: 62°14′56″N 7°10′33″W / 62.24889°N 7.17583°W / 62.24889; -7.17583 | |
| State |  Kingdom of Denmark |
| Constituent country |  Faroe Islands |
| Island | Streymoy |
| Municipality | Sunda Municipality |
| Population
(1 January 2006)
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| • Total | 9 |
| Time zone | GMT |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (EST) |
| Postal code |
FO 436
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| Climate | ET |
Saksun lies in the bottom of what used to be an inlet of the sea, surrounded by high mountains. The inlet formed a good deep natural harbour, until a storm blocked it with sand. The old harbour become an inaccessible seawater lagoon, only accessible by small boats on high tide.
The village has a church and museum. The church was originally built in Tjørnuvík, but in 1858 it was disassembled, carried over the mountains and reassembled in Saksun. The Museum occupies a seventeenth-century farm house called Dúvugarður. The house belongs to the Dúvugarður farm, still an active sheep farm with approximately 710 ewes.
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