It is located at the Vang farm, near Norwegian National Road 70, just west of the village of Oppdal.

It is the main church for the Oppdal parish which is part of the Gauldal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros.

The white, wooden church was built in a cruciform style in 1651 using plans drawn up by the architects Ole Jonsen Hindrum and Nils Olsen.

In 1674, a builder named Knud was hired to strengthen the foundation of the young building because the tower above the nave was too heavy for the walls to hold and the walls were beginning to buckle.

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 at Eidsvoll Manor later that year.