It is the church for the Evenes parish which is part of the Ofoten prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.

The white, wooden church was built in a cruciform style in 1800 using plans drawn up by the architect Johan Bernhard Kreutzer.

[1][2] The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to 1589, but the historical Saga of Haakon Haakonarson says that King Haakon IV of Norway built a church in Evenes around the year 1250.

The new building was a timber-framed church built with a cruciform floor plan, a sacristy in the east, entry porches in the west and south, and a small tower on the roof above the nave.

Records from 1750 show that the church had a graveyard that was surrounded by a fence made out of peat.