The present church replaced an earlier building on the site, Särna gammelkyrka, which still stands nearby though it was abandoned once the new church was completed. Construction of that first new church began in the 1860s to designs by Pehr Johan Ekman, but it was not consecrated until Michaelmas 1879.
Disaster struck on the night of 12 February 1893, when the church burned to the ground. It was rebuilt in wood between 1893 and 1895, closely recreating its predecessor's appearance, including the typical neo-Gothic detailing and decorative timber work seen in the roughly contemporary churches at Hamra and Tyngsjö. The rebuilt church was consecrated on 2 December 1894.
The building was altered further in the twentieth century: a 1914 restoration gave the tower a slimmer profile and added a clock, while a 1958 rebuilding raised the tower by around ten metres and fitted a new clock. The church consists of a rectangular nave with a narrower, straight-ended chancel to the east, a porch to the south, a sacristy to the north, and the west tower. The exterior walls are clad in white-painted timber panelling.
Among the furnishings, the font is a silver bowl originally won as a skiing prize by Per-Erik Hedlund, who donated it to the church in 1926. The altar candlesticks were forged in 1958 by Johan Hesselius, and two church bells in the tower were cast in 1893 and 1894, presumably to replace those lost in the fire.
The church has had several organs. An 1886 instrument by E. A. Setterquist & Son of Örebro was destroyed along with the church in the 1893 fire; a new organ from the same firm followed in 1894. The current organ dates from 1950, built by Åkerman & Lunds Nya Orgelfabriks AB.