Years of peace that followed allowed the rapid economic growth and development of the citizens, merchants, and craftsmen.

The progress of the border city was reflected in the increase in population, the construction of public and private houses, and expanding settlements which were inhabited by Serbs, Germans, Јews, Greeks, Aromanians and other nationalities.

The church is a one-nave late Baroque building with a semicircular apse and shallow choirs, which received a high bell tower on the west side in the late eighteenth century which was only slightly lower than the tower of the nearby church of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

A rare depository designed for the safekeeping of body relics is buried beneath the bell tower, never was used for that purpose.

[2] Sources state that the "new" church, as it was called by locals, served the religious needs of Greeks, Aromanians and Serbs who shared the same religion, all of them giving contributions for its maintenance.