The people of the Mesnali area had long wished for their own chapel due to the long and difficult road to their parish church, Brøttum Church. A plot of land at Havrehaugen was donated to the parish by Oline and Even Sagstuen for the purpose of building an annex chapel in the Brøttum Church parish. Initially, a bell tower was erected in 1927 and a cemetery on the site was consecrated on 11 December 1928. Soon afterwards, Ingeborg Krafft was hired to design the new chapel that would be built at the cemetery site. The building was designed as a half-timberedcruciform chapel in a style reminiscent of the many cruciform churches in the Gudbrandsdalen valley. The foundation wall of the new chapel was built in 1932 and the rest of the building was completed the following year. The new building was consecrated on 19 September 1933. In 1978, the chapel was upgraded to full parish church status.[3][4]