A cemetery was first laid out on this site in 1931, following a proposal made at a parish meeting in Anderstorp in 1922. The chapel itself was constructed six years later, in 1937, to give the expanding local community its own place of worship; at that time the area belonged to Anderstorp parish. In 1951 the chapel was transferred to Gislaved parish, where it remains today.
The building was designed by Göran Pauli, a town architect from Jönköping. Visitors and clergy alike have noted the chapel's intimate, welcoming character, a quality attributed to its relatively small and simple design. Between 1976 and 1977 the interior was renovated under the direction of Per Rudenstam, and the artist Pär Andersson gave the chapel its distinctive colour scheme of yellow, red and blue, also painting the altarpiece. Rudenstam additionally designed the font.
Among the furnishings is a set of communion silver made in 1941 by the noted Lund silversmith Wiwen Nilsson, and a woven textile hanging in the choir created in 1984 by Carin Malteson. The chapel's organ, built in 1973–74 by the Setterquist & Son workshop of Strängnäs, is a mechanical instrument whose manual stops can be played from either keyboard, a feature of interest to organ enthusiasts visiting smaller Swedish churches.