It is the church for the Sekken parish which is part of the Molde domprosti (arch-deanery) in the Diocese of Møre.

The white, wooden church was built in a long church design with a Swiss chalet style in 1908 by the architects Ole Havnæs and Knut Flåthe.

[1][2] The municipal council of the old Veøy Municipality voted unanimously on 4 January 1902 to petition the government for the construction of a chapel and graveyard on the island of Sekken.

This left the people of Sekken island much further from their church.

In 1908, a royal decree was issued authorizing the construction of the new chapel.