The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1369, but it was not new that year. The first church building here was likely a stave church. In 1781, the old church was torn down and replaced with a new timber-framed building. In 1848, a new church was built immediately to the north of the old building. After the new building was completed, the old church was torn down.[3]
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).[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. This was Norway's first national elections. 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]