The building began life serving other purposes—reportedly as a school and meeting hall—before being taken over and rebuilt in 1896 to designs by the building engineer Carl Widell of Stockholm. Its Swiss-inspired architectural style sets it apart from more typical Swedish parish churches of the period, and it was consecrated by the rural dean Robert Kihlberg. Ljusne's chapel parish had been established in 1894, shortly before the church took its current form.
Inside, the church hall occupies the eastern part of the building, divided into three aisles, while parish rooms are located to the west. Rather than a vaulted ceiling, the space is characterised by open, carved timber roof trusses, giving the interior a distinctive rustic character.
Among the furnishings, an octagonal wooden font dates from the 1896 rebuilding and stands on a small platform beside one of the windows. A brass chandelier with twelve branches, made locally in Ljusne in 1896, also survives from the church's early years. Above the altar is an altar-pulpit, which gained its sounding board during a renovation in 1926.
The church's organ has a layered history: a harmonium served before 1944, when a pneumatic organ was built by Bo Wedrup of Uppsala. It was later extended in 1950 by Rolf Larsson, also of Uppsala, and renovated in 1967 by Gunnar Carlsson of Borlänge.