It is an annex chapel in the Narvik parish which is part of the Ofoten prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.

The brick chapel was built in a long church style in 1957 using plans drawn up by the architect Jan Inge Hovig.

[1] The first chapel built on this site was completed in 1939 and it was consecrated on 23 March 1939.

The chapel was destroyed during World War II in April 1940, about a year after it was completed.

The chapel was rebuilt after the war and it was consecrated on 14 December 1957 by the Bishop Wollert Krohn-Hansen.