It is one of the churches for the Beiarn parish which is part of the Salten prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.

[1][2] The first church in Beiarn was constructed in 1724 on the recommendation of Thomas von Westen.

Construction on the new church started in 1872, but due to a storm on 21 January 1873, everything had to be demolished.

At that time, they had planned that this would be used in a new chapel that would have some day been built further up in Beiar Valley.

When Karl Vilhelm Piene started as a parish priest at Beiarn Church in 1930, he found the old furniture, and he received approval from the parish council to put some of the old furniture into the new church.