It is located in the village of Saura on the southeastern shore of the island of Handnesøya.

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

The white, wooden chapel was built in a long church style in 1921.

From the beginning, the chapel was organized as a privately-owned prayer house.

During the 1960s, a cooperative was formed by the villagers who became the formal owner of the church building.