The church was built in 1891 on land acquired by Jacob Gustaf Setterwall, replacing an earlier chapel across Järlasjön. Its granite foundation and red brick walls with pointed Gothic windows are typical of the Neo-Gothic style, and the nave has an open timber roof structure.
One of the most treasured furnishings is the pulpit, thought to date from the 1650s and possibly the work of Johan Wendelstam. It was originally made for Nacka's old chapel, built in 1697, and features carved figures of the four evangelists together with a figure of Christ. From the same earlier chapel comes a votive ship, a model of a fifty-gun Dutch-style vessel said to have been donated by the seaman Anders Bruun in 1697.
Inside, the Neo-Gothic character continues in decorative paintings in the chancel and on the walls, created by Agi Lindegren and inspired by medieval models. A parish hall was added beside the church in 1983–84, designed by Carl Nyrén, and the interior was renovated in 2012, when new pews, a font and a new chancel organ by Grönlunds Orgelbyggeri were introduced.
The church has had several organs over its history, and the present main organ, built in 1968 by Olof Hammarberg, retains a case from an earlier 1892 instrument by Åkerman & Lund.
The surrounding Nacka norra kyrkogård was completed alongside the church in 1891. A funerary chapel added in 1908–09 was later converted into a crematorium, and a boundary wall was built in 1936 when the adjoining road was widened. The churchyard includes a memorial grove and a meditation spot with a perpetually burning gas flame, and holds the graves of several notable figures, including industrialists Oscar F. Carlsson and Johan Viktor Svensson, actor Arne Källerud, musician Calle Jularbo, and the artist couple Georg and Hanna Pauli.