The church's distinctive form, echoing the traditional conical kåta dwelling, makes it a rarity among Sweden's parish churches. It was designed by the Thurfjells architectural practice in Luleå, and its construction was very much a community effort: local residents donated the timber and the site itself, and funds were raised through auctions and collections, including work by the village sewing circle. A grant from the Kempe Memorial Fund also contributed to the costs, which totalled around 96,000 kronor for the church, bell tower and fittings.
Inside, the altarpiece was painted by Marianne Nordström, who later became a nun at Alsike kloster in central Sweden. The organ was built by the respected firm Grönlunds orgelbyggeri of Gammelstad. The font's origins are less clear: asked about it, the then vicar Engelbert Byström is said to have simply called it "a gift", and its donor has never been identified.
The birch trees surrounding the church were planted in the early 1960s by local villagers. Before a separate parish building, Jämtögården, opened in 1991, the church's assembly hall served the community for gatherings of many kinds, including the annual hunting meetings. Around the turn of the millennium, volunteers from Jämtön rebuilt the roof themselves.
The church has occasionally attracted wider attention, with its evening bell-ringing broadcast on television on a couple of occasions, and its unusual building story once featured in a Swedish weekly magazine.