The church was built between 1787 and 1807 and is today listed as a part of the Immovable Cultural Heritage of Great Importance.

[1] There is a folk belief about the patriotic symbolism in the architecture of the church with the two bell towers representing the Serbian people on both sides of the Sava and Danube rivers.

[1] The church building itself was consecrated in 1807 ahead of the completion of the final works for patriotic reasons to celebrate the Serbian Revolution taking place southwards in the Ottoman Empire.

[1] During the World War II in Yugoslavia and Hungarian occupation of Yugoslav territories in the region, in April of 1941 the church was bombarded with artillery shells by the Hungarian occupation forces.

[2] The building suffered new significant damages in 1987 fire but the iconostasis and other items of greatest value were saved.