It is the church for the Dale parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

Peter and Jens Jebsen wrote a letter to the municipal council that Dale Fabrikker, a local industrial business, would pay for the upkeep of the new chapel.

On 16 July 1896, King Oscar II visited Dale and saw the chapel as it was being built.

Arnstein Arneberg won the architectural competition to design the new church.

Work on this stopped for many years due to World War II, but in 1947, Arneberg delivered his drawings for the new church.