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

[4][5] Parish priest Nils Mortenson Lund wrote in 1689 in his report that Vinje Church was burned by Swedish troops in 1612 or 1613 during the Kalmar War.

The walls did not suffer much damage, so the building was repaired within two years.

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.

Carl Julius Bergstrøm (1828-1898) from Trondheim led the reconstruction.