The chapel was built in 1774 as a simple, red-painted timber structure with a bell mounted on the roof. It was raised to serve the seasonal fishing community that gathered on Brändöskär, a pattern typical of chapels built for outlying fishing settlements along the northern Swedish coast.
The bell was originally housed in a separate, freestanding bell tower nearby, as shown in older photographs of the site. During a renovation in 1926–1927 the bell was moved onto the chapel roof itself, and the now-redundant bell tower was given a decorative gilded cockerel as an ornament.
Inside, the altarpiece was painted by the local artist Erik Marklund and depicts the miraculous catch of fish described in the Gospel of John, chapter 21 — a fitting subject for a chapel built to serve a fishing community.
According to Nederluleå parish, a Sunday service has traditionally been held at the chapel each July, though visitors should not assume this continues unchanged today.