It is located in the village of Hommelstø, on the inner shores of the Sørfjorden branch of the Velfjorden.

It is the main church for the Velfjord og Tosen parish which is part of the Sør-Helgeland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.

The red, wooden church was built in a cruciform style in 1674.

The new building was a timber-framed cruciform church with narrow transverse arms on each side of the nave and a narrower choir in the east.

[4] Historically, this was the main church for the old Velfjord Municipality.