The present chapel was designed by architect Kjell Wretling and built between 1972 and 1974, replacing an earlier chapel from 1926 constructed by master builder C. Sandström. It was consecrated in 1974.
The building is faced in grey-white Mexitegel brick, though this began to weather over time; in 2002 the facade was given a light rendering finish and the originally flat roof was reshaped with a slight hipped profile. The interior remains largely intact and is considered typical of the material choices and aesthetic of its decade, with daylight admitted through concealed side windows.
The chapel stands within Västra kyrkogården, a cemetery laid out around 1925 on the western bank of the Umeälven river. Its oldest section lies to the east; the grounds were later extended westward and south-westward in 1953 under architect Denis Sundberg, and northward in 1966–1967 under architect Carl-Henrik Nordlund. The cemetery is bounded by a black iron fence to the south and a stone wall to the east, with a surfaced approach road and gravel paths.
A freestanding bell tower was erected at the same time as the chapel, standing around 100 metres to the south-east. Built of white concrete in a modernist style, it takes the form of a cross with a short crossbar.