In 1847 the Ottoman Empire allowed the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to build a new cathedral in Palestine.

The Co-Cathedral, completed in 1872, is part of the building complex of the Latin Patriarchate, effectively the bishop's church.

During the construction of the Co-Cathedral, seat of the Latin Patriarch, its builders came upon remains of the solid masonry belonging to Jerusalem's old wall.

[3] The church has four decorated stained glass windows, marking the ends of the cross.

[citation needed] The church has five altars,[3] three in the nave and the two aisles and two smaller ones at the ends of the transept.