The Gothic, wooden parish church of St. Martin the Bishop of Tours was erected in place of a former church in the second half of the fifteenth century. Legend has it that even further back in time a pagan stave temple was located in the very same spot. For the first time, the “Grywałd” name appeared in documentation in 1330 as “Grünewald”, that is “a green forest”. Prior to 1618, the church underwent a significant conversion. The main alterations covered the structure of the roof and the ceilings.
In that period, a tower was also added, and the interior was covered with polychrome. Early in the twentieth century, there were plans to enlarge the chancel and to add side chapels, but they were never executed. The church has preserved its original Gothic character to this day. It is an oriented (the chancel faces east), three-part temple with walls and roof covered with wood shingles. It consists of a blockwork chancel and nave and a pole-structure quadrangular tower. The chancel is closed rectangularly, which is typical for the churches in the Podhale region. There is a sacristy adjacent to the chancel from the north side (extended in the early twentieth century), and a porch adjacent to the nave from the south side (added in 1845). A wall painting behind the main altar shows an interesting scene: the Archangel Michael casts Satan, depicted as a bear, into hell. Polychrome in the nave shows scenes from the Passion. The chancel and the nave are covered by separate gable roofs. There is a tetrahedral ridge turret in the roof above the nave, which is probably the result of an alteration. It is assumed that originally there was a one-ridge roof, typical for the Gothic churches of the Małopolska region, instead. The tower has an overhanging bell tower and is covered with a steep bent-sloped pavilion roof. The building is located on the Wooden Architecture Trail of the Małopolska province.