It is one of the three churches in the Meråker parish which is part of the Stjørdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros.

After the Black Death in Norway many people perished and the whole Meråker area was depopulated and no Norwegians lived there from around 1350 until the late-1500s and early-1600s.

It had a tower on the roof and its main entrance was in the middle of the south wall of the nave.

[3][4] In 1874, the old church was disassembled and moved closer to the main village, Midtbygda, where most of the municipal residents lived.

The new church was designed by Peder Olsen and built by builder Erik Nonstad, both were from Åsen.