The first Salvation Army building in Vik stood close to the national highway northwest of Vik Bil. Built with the name Ebenezer and belonged to a Methodist sect and built in 1895. It was set up with American capital. The tenant in Vik was Sivert V. Ulness with hereditary relatives in Sogndal.
The Ulness flock were free Methodists and practiced wax baptism in the sea in front of the boat houses. The Methodists published a magazine, "The Fire Tongue", later called "Truth and Freedom". The magazine was printed in a boathouse on Vikøyri.
After this methodists church was laid down in Vik, the Salvation Army rented the house from 1913 and later bought the house. The Salvation Army got a new building in 1963, and it stands to the north of the construction site called Tomtebu.
Both the Salvation Army and the Prayerhouse had an important place in the old rural community, both of which were assembly houses for the baysitter community and the rest of the village.
Here there were meetings or events so to speak for weeks, often several times a week.
The Salvation Army organized a Sunday school for children with such a high level of support that
it had to be divided into older and younger groups. A quarter of a child had a book where they received a stamp for a quarter of attendance, and at the end of the year there was a premiere after attending. On the Salvation Army, the children got dramatized and told the stories from the Bible.
"The Salvation Army in Vik is still active and has regular meetings and has a very active choir
group that hosts call the string music and sing both at the Salvation Army built and at other
events"
