It is the church for the Strøm parish which is part of the Solør, Vinger og Odal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar.

The red brick church was built in a cruciform design in 1857 using plans drawn up by the architect Heinrich Ernst Schirmer.

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 in Eidsvoll later that year.

[5][7] In 1853, the parish hired the architect Heinrich Ernst Schirmer to design a new church that would be built about 50 metres (160 ft) to the northeast of the old church.

There is a church porch and tower on the west end of the nave, a choir on the east end of the nave, and a sacristy on the north side of the choir.