Suggestions for the church were made during the late part of the 1890s when the expansion of the Surte glass works drew more and more people to the town.

The glass works helped with planning the new church and donated a lot for it in 1911.

[2] The stones were moved to the building site in a total of 740 horse cart loads.

[2] The church was designed by architect Sigfrid Ericson and the project was financed by a voluntary collection that raised SEK 25,000.

[3] The church is one of the county's most noted examples of the national romanticism architecture of the early 20th century and it is a listed building.