It is located in the village of Svenskvollen in the Susendal valley.

It is one of the churches for the Hattfjelldal parish which is part of the Indre Helgeland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.

The brown, wooden church was built in a long church style in 2001 using plans drawn up by the architect Jim Inge Bøasæter.

[1][2] A chapel was built at Svenskvollen in the Susendal valley in 1916.

It was consecrated on 14 October 2001 by the Bishop Øystein Ingar Larsen.