It is the annex chapel for the Sel parish which is part of the Nord-Gudbrandsdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar.

[1] As early as the 1930s, people in the village of Sjoa were working towards getting their own chapel so they wouldn't need to travel so far to get to church.

This building was disassembled and was rebuilt on the chapel site in 1977-1978 under the leadership of Jon Rukin.

The old building was rebuilt as it was plus the addition of a choir and sacristy on the north end and a small tower with a cross above the two-story church porch on the south end.

The new Sjoa Chapel was consecrated by the Bishop Georg Hille on 17 December 1978.