It is a one-story, rectangular wood-frame structure, clad in clapboard with a gable roof and steeple.

To the rear of the church is a burial ground containing the remains of both Mohawks and Europeans.

They were the easternmost of the Five Nations of the Iroquois League, who occupied most of New York west of the Hudson River.

Construction was done under the direction and at the expense of Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs.

[3] It is the only colonial Indian missionary church surviving in New York State.