Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint won a competition in 1913 for the church, and the foundation was laid on September 8, 1921, Grundtvig's birthday. It was inaugurated in 1927. After Jensen-Klint's death in 1930 his son Kaare Klint finished the interior and nearby buildings, completing the church in 1940.
The article calls it a rare example of expressionist church architecture, blending Brick Expressionism with Gothic verticality. Its stepped gables are based on Zealand village churches, and it uses about five million yellow bricks. It is 76 meters (249 feet in the infobox, 259 in the text) long, 115 feet (35 m) wide, with a 72-foot (22 m) nave and a 160-foot (49 m) tower. It holds 1,440.
The interior is a triple-aisled hall church with pointed arches and ribbed groin vaults. The 1965 west organ has an 11-meter pipe, the longest in Scandinavia according to the article. The church is open to visitors year-round.
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