Jaakko Klemetinpoika Leppänen, a church builder from Vesanka, planned and built the church. Local people received Crown permission for a graveyard and village church in 1728, and construction ran from 1763 to 1765. His grandson Erkki Leppänen added the bell tower in 1821, when the windows were also enlarged.
The church has a cross-type floor plan with arms of similar size and was built entirely of pine logs. The pulpit, pews, galleries and chandeliers are hand-carved pine. The article names Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque influences: a high roof resembling Gothic forms, and an octagonal roof with a circular design derived from the Renaissance oculus.
It went out of use in 1879 when a new church was built. After Josef Strzygowski recognized its value in the 1920s, it was restored several times from 1929 onward. UNESCO inscribed it in 1994. The article gives no dimensions or ticket information.
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