Early records show that there was a
stave church located at Bakke during the
Middle Ages, but not much is known of that church. In 1668, the
choir of the old church was torn down and replaced with a new timber-framed structure. Shortly afterwards, the
nave of the old church was torn down and replaced with a new timber-framed structure. After these two renovations, the entire building was essentially brand new. In 1757, the church was significantly renovated and enlarged. In 1806–1807, the church was again renovated by removing the roof, raising the heights of the walls and rebuilding the roof. In 1814, this church served as an
election church (). 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. ==See also==