The church was built in 1956–1957 to a design by the architect Georg Rudner, who was also responsible for alterations to Gustaf Vasa kyrka in Stockholm and for an organ façade at Hjärtums kyrka in Bohuslän. It is a simple, white-painted building typical of mid-twentieth-century parish churches raised to serve outlying communities in Sweden's northern forest districts.
Funding for the church came partly from the local community itself and partly from donations, reflecting the way many rural Norrbotten churches of this period were built through a combination of parish effort and gifts. Two of the church's three bells were donated by Gällivare Allmänningsskog, the local common forest cooperative, a reminder of the close ties between the church and the region's forestry economy.
The church's organ, its first, was built in 1957 by Grönlunds Orgelbyggeri of Gammelstad. It is a small mechanical instrument, modest in scale but characteristic of the workshop's output for parish churches in the north of Sweden at the time.