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

The church has about 12 scheduled Sunday worship services per year.

It is believed that the church was built and consecrated in the year 1236.

[3] Around the year 1880, the people on the island of Storfosna requested their own cemetery be built.

Permission was granted and one was built about 350 metres (1,150 ft) west of the medieval church site on some donated land.