Gustaf Wickman was the church's architect and the famous altarpiece is a work of Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke.

Hjalmar Lundbohm, manager of LKAB and founder of the community, commissioned Wickman to design the church and town.

[2] In 2001, Kiruna Church was voted the most popular pre-1950 building in Sweden, in a country-wide poll conducted by the Swedish Travelling Exhibitions, a government agency connected to the Ministry of Culture.

The building's exterior is neo-Gothic, the interior has national romanticism elements, and the altarpiece is Art Nouveau.

The building's plan displayed an open and spacious square design, with elevated and symmetrical triangular forms.

The main room of the church possesses gable windows, which provide plenty of natural light for the inside space.

Colored panes towards the lower part of the interior creates a shady, obscure environment by the side aisles because it reduces the amount of light entering the space.