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

The long, low church building is a cog-jointed construction using timbers clad externally with red-painted wooden paneling, as was usual at the end of the eighteenth century.

The roof is covered with tiles and a ridge turret with an onion dome and spire crowns the intersection of the cross arms.

[3] Flakstad Church was first mentioned in existing written sources in 1430, but it was likely built before that time.

Shortly afterwards, a new church was built in approximately the same site using timber from Russia.