Construction was undertaken by local residents, who included Aromanian merchants erroneously described as "Greeks", giving rise to the nickname.
The iconostasis, artistically sculpted in 1776, was later painted in Brâncovenesc style, as the initial art was destroyed.
Additionally, it was linked by a 1969 article with Ștefan of Ocnele Mari, a painter hired in 1737 by Inocențiu Micu-Klein, head of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, headquartered in Blaj.
However, a 1977 article claimed that the style was far from belonging to a Wallachian painter of the first half of the 18th century, and that all the icons were painted in 1776.
[3] The church cemetery includes the graves of a number of cultural and religious figures, most of whom were Greek-Catholic.