It is the church for the Tingvoll parish which is part of the Indre Nordmøre prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Møre.

The church was built here, since during the pre-Christian era, Tingvoll was an assembly place (Norwegian: ting) for all of the Nordmøre region.

As a consequence the church is sometimes called Nordmørsdomen, meaning the Nordmøre cathedral.

The centuries-old Romanesque style Tingvoll church and the large angular farmhouse beside it, lie on a spot on the north side of the Tingvollfjorden, just outside the village of Tingvollvågen off of Norwegian National Road 70 (Rv70).

In the chancel wall, behind the top of the altarpiece, there is a marble rock with runic inscriptions.