It is the church for the Hafslo parish which is part of the Sogn prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

[6][7] Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway.

Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.

Plans were made to enlarge the church, an architect was hired, and contracts were signed.

In January 1877, a week after the contracts were signed, the parish building committee changed its mind and it was decided to tear down the old church and build a new one.