The present church was built remarkably quickly after fire destroyed its medieval predecessor, along with its bell tower, in the spring of 1691. Construction began the following May, and the new church was consecrated on 30 November 1692. Local farms supplied all the building materials except nails and tar, and by 1695 the exterior was fully clad in wooden shingles, a covering that has since been renewed more than once.
Between 1707 and 1708 the interior walls and ceiling were covered with decorative painting by the masters Petter Wadsten and Zacharias Hake of Eksjö, depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments. Their work is thought to have drawn on illustrated German bibles and Dutch engravings, and possibly on the example of Johan Künkel's ceiling paintings at Eksjö's old church. The paintings were conserved and given new lighting during a thorough interior restoration in 1990, when the pews were repainted and the altar arrangement was also altered.
The church's finest treasure is a carved triptych altarpiece, made in the late fifteenth century in the workshop of the celebrated sculptor Bernt Notke. It was saved from the fire that consumed the earlier church, giving it a direct link to Djursdala's medieval past. The richly carved pulpit, likely older than the current building itself, was completed in 1698 and painted a decade later; its figures represent Christ and the four evangelists.
The font, of polished grey limestone, dates from the 1600s and is attributed to the stonemason Michael Hacke's workshop in Skänninge. Twin roof turrets in the shape of crosses with weathervanes mark the eastern and western ends of the nave roof, a distinctive silhouette against the Småland countryside.
The church has an organ built in 1841 by Anders Jonsson of Ringarum, later modified and eventually restored to its original form in 1988. A smaller mechanical choir organ, built in 1981 and moved here in 1988, supplements it. The timber bell tower, probably dating from 1698, houses two bells that have each been recast more than once, the smaller in 1820 and the larger in 1850.