It is one of the two churches for the Nordreisa parish which is part of the Nord-Troms prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland.

The building was consecrated on 8 October 1856 by the Bishop Knud Gislesen.

During the last winter of World War II (1944–1945), the church was used as a residence for German soldiers, and the service building nearby was used as a horse stable.

The church was spared during the burning of Finnmark and Northern Troms by the retreating German Army in 1945, but much of the church inventory disappeared during this period.

A few years after the war a baptismal bowl from 1856 was found in a pile of horse manure.