Before the present building, the district was served by two separate churches: the medieval Varv church, dating from the 1100s and now entirely gone, and Styra church, a tower-less limestone building from the 1200s that was demolished in 1861. The foundation of the current church was laid in the autumn of 1859, and it opened for worship on the first Sunday of Advent in 1861. During construction, services were held first in the old Styra church and, after its demolition, in the local schoolhouse.
The church is built in a historicist mixed style, combining a nave with a straight-ended chancel wall and a five-sided sacristy behind it to the east. The west tower is topped with a neo-Gothic spire, and its paired sound openings show Romanesque-inspired detailing.
Inside, the church follows a hall-church layout beneath a panelled wooden ceiling. The chancel is dominated by an altarpiece depicting the Transfiguration of Christ, painted in 1862 by Johan Zacharias Blackstadius. The hexagonal pulpit with its sounding board, along with the enclosed pews and organ gallery, all date from the same period as the church itself.
Notable survivals from the medieval Varv church include a crucifix and an altar cabinet, both dated to the 1400s, which have been preserved within the present building.
The church's first organ was built in 1862 by Daniel Wallenström of Uppsala, with 15 stops; it was later altered in 1958. That historic organ case is said to survive in storage within the church, though its current condition and accessibility are not confirmed. The organ in use today was built in 1982 by Lindh Orgel of Umeå, an electric instrument retaining the 1862 façade.
The churchyard is the burial place of Mauritz Björck, though further biographical detail was not available in the sources consulted.