It is located in the village of Gursken on the island of Gurskøya.

It is one of the two churches for the Gursken parish which is part of the Søre Sunnmøre prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Møre.

The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1919 using plans drawn up by the architect Eduard Carlén [no].

[1][2] The parish received permission to build a church in Gursken in 1918.

The parish hired the Swedish architect Eduard Carlén [no], who is best known for having designed a large number of tenements in Kristiania (now Oslo) in the 1890s.