It is the church for the Vikedal parish which is part of the Haugaland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Stavanger.

[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.

[4][5] In the late 1820s and again in 1834, the church was repaired after being struck by lightning and heavily damaged.

[3] In 1881, the parish built a new church about 500 metres (0.31 mi) to the northeast.