Administratively it belongs to the Vaala municipality in North Ostrobothnia, or Kainuu until 2016.

[1] Manamansalo is located between the Ärjänselkä and Niskanselkä areas (fjards) of Oulujärvi.

The church was destroyed by Russians in 1581, after which the Oulujärvi parish was reintegrated into Liminka.

Manamansalo remained part of Paltamo until Säräisniemi was separated from it in 1864.

[6] The bell of the 16th century church was found in the Solovetsky Monastery of Russia in the 1970s, having been brought there in 1596.