It is the church for the Ytterøy parish which is part of the Stiklestad prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros.

The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1890 using plans drawn up by the architect Knut Guttormsen and the lead builder was O. Günther.

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 at Eidsvoll Manor later that year.

[5][6] During the 1880s, the cemetery that had surrounded the church was moved about 400 metres (1,300 ft) to the northeast to a better location on the property.

This ultimately caused 81 people to resign their membership in the Church of Norway over this.