It one of the four churches for the Gaular parish which is part of the Sunnfjord prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

[1][2] The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1330, but it was not new at that time.

[3][5][6] By the 1900s, the church was already showing signs of age and some of the walls were no longer straight.

The church was then rebuilt by the architect Wilhelm Essendrop and the lead builder was Andreas Selberg.

The church was rebuilt to look like it did at its previous location, plus a new choir and sacristy were built on the east end of the nave.

The newly rebuilt church was consecrated on 11 October 1939 by Bishop Andreas Fleischer.