The chapel was constructed in 1788 as a place of worship for the Sámi population who lived and worked on the open mountain during summer months. It is a small building, roughly seven by four metres, with walls of dry-stacked local stone and an original timber roof reportedly hauled up from Kvikkjokk, some sixty kilometres away. Three small windows, each with sixteen panes, light the interior: one beside the door on the south wall, one on the north wall, and one at the eastern end.
Services were originally held once a year, on 25 July, and the journey to conduct them from Kvikkjokk was said to take three days each way. Sometime between 1857 and 1863 these preaching journeys ceased, and the chapel was left to decay; by the early twentieth century parts of the roof were missing. It was later restored and rededicated in 1961. No churchyard was ever established at the site.
The chapel stands close to the site of former silver-ore mining that supplied the Luleå silver works in the late seventeenth century, although the building itself has no direct connection to that mining activity, which ended in 1702.
In its early years the chapel had no pews, and worshippers stood throughout services. Pews now inside the chapel, along with its bell and some furnishings, are said to have been donated by the mountain-hiking club Skarja.
The chapel lies within an area designated of national interest for cultural heritage conservation in Norrbotten.