The building began life in 1920 as a mortuary chapel in the nearby village of Bastuträsk. When a new, larger church was constructed there in 1955, the older chapel became surplus to needs. Rather than being demolished, it was dismantled into sections and transported to Petiknäs, where it was extended and reconsecrated as a parish church in 1958. This gives the church an interesting biography quite different from most Swedish churches, which were usually built for a single, fixed location.
Inside, the church houses a hexagonal font that is thought to have originally stood in the Bastuträsk church, carried along with the rest of the building's fittings when the chapel was relocated. Its presence links the current building to its earlier life before the move.
The organ, with five stops, was installed in 1973 and built by the respected Swedish firm Grönlunds Orgelbyggeri, a maker known for instruments in many smaller Swedish parish churches of the period.