The western side of the aisle, under the gallery and in the main entrance section, can be separated off from the rest of the church area by means of folding doors and has direct access to the kitchen on the north side. Similar solutions for separating the meeting hall and kitchen originate from the smallchurch movement in Copenhagen and have been in use in Norway since the beginning of the twentieth century.

The designs for Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Märtha’s Chapel in the forest village of Tørberget in Trysil were passed on by the State Building Inspector. This had been designed by the Buildings Inspectorate and inaugurated in 1933. Here, there was both a kitchen and a meeting hall, which could be separated off from the church room by means of partition walls. The designs were accepted for use at a parish council meeting in Vestre Jakobselv, and in 1936 a municipal guarantee for building and maintenance was obtained. During the difficult years at the end of the 1930s the municipality received relief work funding, which was used amongst other things for planning, road access and casting the foundation wall of the church.