The church owes its origins to the ironworking industry that has shaped this district since medieval times. Iron ore was mined and processed in the area for centuries, and one nearby smelting works, Brattforshyttan, is recorded as early as 1540. It was the ironworks owner Anders Bratt who initiated the building of the church, though when it was consecrated the interior fittings were still simple and the building not entirely finished.
Sources differ slightly on the earliest building history: one account gives building work starting around 1661, another places the start in the early 1600s, with roughly a decade of construction before consecration in 1669. Built of horizontal log timber, the church originally comprised a nave with a three-sided chancel and a sacristy on the north side. A porch was added on the south side in 1680 but was later removed during the nineteenth century. The tower, now built into the nave, is thought to date from the 1720s, and in 1798 the sacristy was moved from the north side to its present position east of the chancel. By the mid-nineteenth century the church had gained its current appearance, when the exterior walls were clad in pale panelling.
Inside, the pulpit on the north side of the chancel dates from 1687 and has an octagonal body, while the altarpiece is from 1694. The font is a twentieth-century addition, made of wood in 1953. The church has had more than one organ over the years, including a small instrument later renovated in the 1880s and a larger one installed in the 1920s.
A lasting curiosity is one of the tower's shutters, which is said to remain permanently open. Tradition holds this to be a form of penance, imposed because the church bells were not rung in the manner prescribed following the death of King Oscar I in 1859 — a story worth noting for visitors, though its historical accuracy cannot be confirmed.
A restoration in 1972 altered the internal arrangement, separating the tower's ground floor and the westernmost part of the nave to create additional parish space, which had the effect of restoring the main church interior closer to its original proportions.