Anga Church takes its name from a now vanished farmstead, mentioned in a runestone inscription at the end of the 11th century.

[2] Thanks to dendrochronological investigations of still intact wooden details, the church can be dated quite precisely.

From the same time dates a runic inscription in Old Gutnish, which tells the name of the farmers of the parish who contributed oxen and day's works to the construction of the church, showing that the building of the church was a communal undertaking.

A later set of murals depict the Passion of Christ together with legends of saints, and were made during the middle of the 15th century.

[1][2] The church used to house medieval wooden sculptures, the majority of which are today at the Museum of Gotland in Visby.