This church belongs to the Grenjadarstadur benefice in the Thingeyjar deanery. Grenjadarstadur was and is a parsonage, a church site, and a Folk Museum in the Adal Valley south of the town Husavik in the North.
Catholic churches there were dedicated to Marteinn the bishop. Annexed churches were at Thvera, Nes, and Einarsstadir. The present church was built in 1865 and in the cemetery in front of the church is a basaltic column gravestone with a runic inscription.