The church was consecrated in 1980 by Bishop Ragnar Askmark, having been established on an ecumenical basis by thirteen different denominations and Christian organisations. It is now run by the Church of Sweden in Norrköping as a shared parish church, and its patron is reportedly King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Designed by Tage Hedlund, an architect associated with the wildlife park, the building seats around 200 people and is partly carved into the mountainside, with some of its walls formed from the blasted rock itself. Inside, a large outcrop of natural stone rises up on one side of the worship space, said to symbolise the biblical image of faith built upon rock, and by extension the apostle Peter, whose name is linked to the word for rock.
A large window on one side of the church frames a view across Bråviken, drawing the surrounding landscape into the building itself and reinforcing the sense that this is a place shaped as much by nature as by design.
The church contains a mechanical organ built in 1981 by the Mårtensson organ workshop in Lund, a modest instrument in keeping with the building's simple, elemental character.