It is the church for the Øvre Rendal parish which is part of the Nord-Østerdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar.

The white, wooden church was built in an cruciform design in 1759 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect.

A 13th-century crucifix that formerly hung in that church is still in existence today.

[5][6] Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway.

Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.