The first church on this site was consecrated on 28 February 1960 by Bishop Ruben Josefson. It stood for little more than three decades before being destroyed following a lightning strike in September 1995. Remarkably, several furnishings were rescued from the ruins, including the bell tower structure, the font, the altarpiece and a number of art objects such as bridal crowns.
Among the saved items was a ceramic altar relief created in 1959 by the sculptor Hans Hedberg, who was born in Köpmanholmen but spent his working life in Biot, France. Because the relief could not easily be moved once fixed in place, its survival became a significant factor in local discussions about where the replacement church should be built. Hedberg was also responsible for the church's ceramic font, which likewise survived the fire.
The present Brukskyrkan was consecrated on 27 March 1999 by Bishop Karl-Johan Tyrberg, restoring a place of worship to the community after several years without a permanent church building. As a twentieth-century timber structure, it sits within a tradition of modest, functional district churches built to serve smaller industrial communities in this part of Sweden.
For visitors, the chief interest lies less in grand architecture than in the continuity of memory the building represents: furnishings carried out of a burning church, a sculptor's work that helped decide where a new one would stand, and a community that chose to rebuild around what could be saved.