The church was designed by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Gerss and built between 1827 and 1831 by master builders Olof Gustav Alm and Israel Rönnberg, with local labour contributing tens of thousands of days' work. It was consecrated on 17 July 1831, and its tower has long served as a landmark visible across Boden.
At the centre of the church lies the so-called Mariakoret, surrounded by candle trees. To the rear, opposite the tower, an extension that once served as the sacristy has been used as a columbarium since 1953.
Adjoining the church stands a kyrkstad, or church town, of around twenty surviving church cottages, now let out to visitors and used for other purposes. This settlement originated in 1833 as a much larger community of church cottages built to accommodate parishioners travelling from outlying areas; numbers have dwindled considerably since the early twentieth century, with roughly a hundred lost between 1919 and the early 2000s.
Inside, the pulpit dates from the church's consecration in 1831, while its sounding board is from 1951 and includes a carved dove attributed to the artist Hjalmar Rönnbäck. The altarpiece, painted by Harald Lindberg, depicts a scene from the Sermon on the Mount. Twelve apostle figures stand in two groups flanking the altar; these originally formed part of an earlier 1931 choir arrangement before being repositioned during the 1951 renovation.
The church organ, built in 1983 by Grönlunds Orgelbyggeri, stands on the gallery within an organ case dating from 1894.