Öfra kapell was built in 1894 as a combined church and school building serving Övra and the neighbouring villages. Land and materials were donated by the forestry company Kramfors AB, and the builder was Jakob Högberg of Bölen. The bell tower beside the chapel followed in 1898.
Many people who had settled in the area from Finland and Russia around this time may have influenced the chapel's somewhat unusual design, though this connection is not firmly documented. The upper floor served as both schoolroom and church hall until 1944, when the local school was closed and pupils sent to Krånge; the teacher's residence occupied the ground floor below.
In September 1944 the building was re-consecrated as a church alone, once the school function had ended, by Bishop Torsten Bohlin, with the old school desks replaced by proper pews. It was around this period that the chapel acquired its first organ. Electricity reached the village of Övra, and the chapel, in 1958. Around the mid-20th century the original round-log facades were clad with boarding.
A substantial renovation in 1981 restored the original colour scheme both inside and out, and the bell tower itself was renovated in 1997. In 2016 the building was voted the "most beautiful house in Ångermanland" by the local newspaper Allehanda, a nod to its distinctive character among the region's timber buildings.
The chapel was rededicated after further renovation on 4 June 2021, in the presence of Bishop Eva Nordung Byström.