It is the church for the Varaldsøy parish which is part of the Sunnhordland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1885 using plans drawn up by the architects Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe and Hans Heinrich Jess.

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1337, but it was not new at that time.

[3][4] In 1724, the church was sold by the Crown to Ole Gjerdrum, the local parish priest.

In 1873, the parish purchased the church back from private ownership at a cost of 615 Norwegian speciedaler.