Blåvik became its own parish in 1859, and services were initially held at Blåvik manor house. Plans for a church were drawn up in 1868, the foundations laid in 1870, and the building was completed and consecrated in 1873 by Bishop Ebbe Gustaf Bring — the first church ever built on this site.
Unusually, the timber church is aligned north–south rather than the traditional east–west. The rectangular nave has a straight-ended chancel to the north, with the sacristy at the eastern end, the porch to the west, and the tower at the southern end. The exterior is roughcast and painted white, with copper-clad roofs.
Rather than a conventional altarpiece, the chancel is dominated by three joined windows with a wooden cross at their centre, framing a view out over the lake. On either side hang oil paintings by the artist Ragnar Persson, whose work also appears elsewhere in the church. The church organ dates from 1884, built by Carl Elfström of Ljungby.
The churchyard, surrounded by water, contains a number of artistically decorated gravestones bearing relief portraits of the deceased. A distinctive memorial garden features a so-called ship of the dead ('sommaskepp'), depicted as though newly launched from the church wall on its way to a distant destination.
A renovation in 1929 altered the church's colour scheme and added relief decoration to the organ loft.