Chapels such as this were often built by local associations in industrial and rural districts where the parish church lay too far away. In Trogared, the initiative came in the 1910s, with the curate Adolf Kloo, inspired by the contemporary church-renewal movement, acting as one of the driving forces. Gustav Landrén, owner of the Trogared estate, donated the site, and the chapel was raised largely through voluntary contributions and labour, including significant support from the local women's church association.
The building was completed around 1918–1919, with sources differing slightly on the exact year of completion and consecration; one account gives 1918 with a 1921 episcopal consecration, while other records point to a first service in August 1919. It was designed and built by the brothers Albin and Carl Wilhelm Gustafsson of Sandhult, prolific local church architects, and represented their last such commission.
When the finished chapel was offered as a gift to the parish, the offer was declined on the grounds that the parish could not afford the upkeep of another church building — a decision that reportedly attracted considerable attention, even in the national press. As a result, those who had built the chapel formed a foundation to maintain it and arrange for clergy, an arrangement that lasted until the parish finally took over responsibility in 1970.
Architecturally, the chapel is a modest example of national romantic style, with a steep gabled roof and a small shingle-covered ridge turret. Inside, a timber barrel vault with an open roof truss gives the interior a medieval-inspired feel, and the chancel is narrower and lower than the nave, flanked by small side rooms with their own staircase entrances. The furnishings are simple painted joinery.
Notable among the chapel's furnishings is a christening bowl, said to have been donated in 1920 by the parents of the first child baptised there. An altarpiece by the artist Erik Abrahamson was added in the late 1940s during an interior renovation, replacing an earlier figure of Christ that had stood before a since-blocked chancel window. The chapel's original organ, installed in 1999, reportedly performed poorly and was later replaced by a digital instrument, though only the old organ case remains.