It is the church for the Helleland parish which is part of the Dalane prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Stavanger.

The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1832 using plans drawn up by the architect Hans Linstow.

[1][2] The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1380, but it was built well before that time.

[4] 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.