It is one of the two churches for the Nedstrand parish which is part of the Haugaland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Stavanger.

The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1868 using designs by the architects Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe and Hans Linstow.

In 1656, the old church was torn down and replaced with a new building (or instead it may have been heavily renovated and rebuilt).

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.

[4][5] In 1868, a new church was built on the other side of the river at the intersection of two roads, about 180 metres (590 ft) to the west.