It is located in the village of Skomsvoll on the island of Otterøya.

It is the church for the Otterøy parish which is part of the Namdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros.

The building was constructed in 1858 using plans drawn up by the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch.

[6][7] Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway.

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.