It is located along the river Radobolja, at the foot of Hum.

[1] After the bishop's residence complex was built in Vukodol in 1847, the seat of the new Franciscan province and the seat of the bishop of Mostar,[2] in 1866 the Franciscan church of St. Peter and Paul in the city itself.

Thirty years later, a Franciscan monastery was built.

The church was destroyed in the Serb-Montenegrin shelling of Mostar in 1992.

[3] The church has the tallest bell tower in Bosnia and Herzegovina (107 meters).