The white, wooden church was built in a cruciform design in 1844 by Anders Thorsen Syrtveit who used plans drawn up by the famous architect Hans Linstow.

Altogether with the entrance and the sacristy, the church is 233 square metres (2,510 sq ft).

The church seats about 400 people comfortably on the main floor and in the upper gallery.

Historically, the church was the main parish church and the priest who worked here, also served the annex parish of Hylestad Church, plus the priest also went to the neighboring rural parish of Bykle for three services per year in the 1600s, since they didn't have their own priest for many years.

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.