It is one of the churches for the Valestrand og Førde parish which is part of the Sunnhordland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

On 4 March 1937, official permission was granted to construct the new church.

Torgeir Alvsaker was hired to design the new building which was built in 1937-1938.

The church was consecrated on 22 September 1938 by the Bishop Andreas Fleischer.

It was part of the old municipality of Vikebygd when it was constructed, and it served the western part of the municipality, hence the name (vestre means "western" in Norwegian).