[2] During the Russian Empire, Jabrayil was the location of a customs office for the Russian-Persian border,[5] as well as, a royal school staffed by the Armenians, including its principal Alexander Ter-Abrahamian (since 1879).

[9] On 23 August 1993, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, the city was occupied by the forces of Armenia and the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, causing the displacement of its population.

[25] In March 2021, BBC journalist Jonah Fisher visited the site of the church using geolocation and observed no trace of it remained.

When Fisher showed the images to Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev saying "the church has been destroyed", Hajiyev replied "because it's a proper geolocation I don't know, I need to check", then adding that "in Jabrayil never ever Armenian lived [sic]" and that "building any religious site of changing any religious character of the region is a violation of international humanitarian law," and then changed the subject to the destruction of Azerbaijani cities by Armenians.

[10] In early February 2021, foreign ambassadors accredited to Azerbaijan, military attachés and heads of international organizations visited Jabrayil.

[26] In September 2021, the British company Chapman Taylor won a tender to prepare a draft master plan for Jabrayil.

[27] In October of the same year, on the anniversary of Azerbaijan regaining control of the city, President Ilham Aliyev laid the foundation stone for the central district hospital, school, and the first apartment block.