It is the church for the Strand parish which is part of the Ryfylke prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Stavanger.
The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1874 using designs by the architect Fritz von der Lippe.
In 1626, the old church was torn down and replaced with a new timber-framed building on roughly the same location.
[4] Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway.
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.