It is the church for the Røldal parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

The brown, wooden stave church was built in around the year 1250 using designs by an unknown architect.

The Bergen Museum holds a variety of building components and other artifacts from the medieval church.

These include altar frontal and wooden sculptures of St. Olaf from about 1250, of the Virgin Mary with child from about 1250, and the Archangel Michael, dated about 1200.

It was the design of German born painter Gottfried Hendtzschel from Breslau in Silesia.