The new church was a cruciform design with 16 windows and a small spire on top of a tower.

Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.

In 1893, a new church was built using designs by the architect H. Bucher.

That church was burned to the ground by the retreating German army as they left Finnmark in 1944.

The current church was a part of the large reconstruction project in Hammerfest that was consecrated in July 1961.