[2][3] This is the second building of the oldest Catholic parish in Columbia and the Midlands of South Carolina.

On June 24, 2018, it was announced that the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued a decree granting Saint Peter's Catholic Church in Columbia the title ‘Minor Basilica.’ This makes the church the first basilica in South Carolina.

[4] The St. Peter's Church was listed the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

St. Peter's first church, designed by the South Carolina architect Robert Mills, was completed in 1824.

The Gothic Revival church was built with dark red brick with Bedford limestone and dull glazed terra cotta trim.