It is one of the churches for the Porsanger parish which is part of the Indre Finnmark prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland.

It was constructed by local volunteer labor and it was consecrated on 2 October 1865.

In 1897, the altarpiece from Kistrand Church was gifted to Lakselv chapel.

During World War II, the occupying German army stationed soldiers in Lakselv.

On 26 November 1944, Lakselv Chapel was burned to the ground by the German occupying forces as part of "the scorched earth tactics" that they employed as they retreated from Finnmark.