The construction work was directed by French cartographer Noël Salvarelli, commissioned by the local authorities to build the access road to the new mountain station of Mount Bokor, where is son was baptized once the church was completed.

[1] In March 1928, after nearly ten years of hard work, due to the remoteness and the logistical difficulties specific to the place, the apostolic vicar Monsignor Jean-Claude Bouchut celebrated the blessing of the church with seven other priests in the presence of the Resident-Superior from Cambodia, Madame Le Fol, as well as many Christians from Phnom Penh and Kampot.

The interior was partitioned; boxes, the remains of toilets and kitchen, suggest makeshift barracks, built in the last bastion of the Khmer Rouge.

On Christmas Eve 2017, the Royal Government of Cambodia invited the Apostolic Vicar of Cambodia, Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler, as well as other representatives of the Catholic Church to officially return the ownership of the building and the surrounding land to the Catholic Church, recognizing the "shameful" use of this sacred place during its occupation by the Khmer Rouge.

[8] It is built in a neo-Romanesque style which stands out in the single vault in a cradle, with semicircular arched windows and a band that run alongside the structure.