It is one of the churches for the Selbu parish which is part of the Stjørdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros.

The white, stone church was built in a cruciform style around the year 1150 under designs by an unknown architect.

It was originally built as a single-nave long church with narrower choir with a lower roof line in the southeast.

[3][4] The large tower on the west end also houses the entry porch for the church.

When a new floor was laid in the church in 1959, a total of 118 coins were found, most of them being Norwegian and Swedish.

The Swedish coins have a dating range from 1275 to 1560, while 34 of the total 58 Norwegian are minted under Håkon Håkonsson (1217–63).