The current building is the successor of the church built between 1669 and 1671, formerly located at the first block of Jirón Áncash until its demolition in 1937 to make way for the construction of posterior garden of the new Government Palace.

Years later, Calafé's daughter, Úrsula Morales, requested more terrain, as did the Jesuit Francisco del Castillo [es] afterwards for the construction of a school for destitute children.

[6] A new terrain was purchased at the 12th block of Venezuela Avenue, at the Chacra Colorada neighbourhood of Breña, to house a replacement church.

[3] The building that replaced the original temple was designed by architect Carlos Morales Macchiavello [es] and built between 1940 and 1945 in the Modernist style.

This was due to the fact that the sacred image was consumed by a fire on its platform during its patron saint's day in 1946 and had to be transferred to the capital for its restoration, after this, the altar of the temple was suitable for the virgin who came from the Andes to remain at the side of the Virgin of the Forsaken during the masses organised by the Chacasino residents in Lima in the last two months before its departure in August 1947.