The chapel was constructed in 1976 to designs by architect Bengt Lidström, and stands roughly fifty metres north-west of Bjurholm's parish church. It is a modest wooden building, its exterior clad in red-painted standing panel boards beneath a saddle roof covered with clay tiles.
Inside, the chapel room accommodates around sixty people. The walls are lined with yellow-brown wood panelling, and the floor is finished in parquet, giving the interior a warm, understated character consistent with many mid-twentieth-century Swedish ecclesiastical buildings.
Among its furnishings is a two-manual organ built by the respected Swedish firm Grönlunds Orgelbyggeri, a maker known for instruments in churches across the country.
As a funeral chapel rather than a parish church for regular worship, Markuskapellet's role has been primarily to serve the community at times of bereavement, complementing the nearby Bjurholm church.