It is the church for the Hareid parish which is part of the Søre Sunnmøre prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Møre.

[1][2] The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to 1432, but it was not new that year.

Around the year 1640, a timber-framed transept was built off of the north side of the nave as a way of adding more seats in the church, but also to help support the old medieval structure.

It was a timber-framed, octagonal building that was designed by the local parish priest, Peder Thomas Buschmann and Elling Valbø from Ørskog was the lead builder.

The parish hired the architects Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno and the lead builder was Knut Stokkeland.

The new building was designed in a Romanesque Revival style and it was consecrated on 13 December 1877 by the local parish priest Christian Wisløff.