It is the church for the Hodalen parish which is part of the Nord-Østerdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar.

The brown, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1934 using plans drawn up by the architect Andreas Sandmæl.

[1][2] In 1899, the village of Hodalen got permission to build a cemetery so that people of the southern valley of Tolga had a place to bury their dead without the long trip to Tolga Church.

During the 1920s, money was raised to build a chapel at the cemetery.

Andreas Sandmæl was hired to design the new wooden chapel.