The date of construction is not entirely clear: the 1715 pisanie placed above the entrance door by Ștefan Cantacuzino, replacing one from the 16th century, mentions Mircea the Shepherd (buried there in 1559) as the builder, with his son Pătrașcu the Good responsible for ornamentation and painting.

A bell tower was built in the 1670s under Grigore I Ghica and George Ducas; it burned following a lightning strike in 1691 and was rebuilt by Constantin Brâncoveanu, who added a clock.

[1] Ștefan Cantacuzino replaced the entrance portal with a wider one, still extant; tore down the wall separating nave from narthex, replacing it with three arches on stone columns; painted the interior; and redesigned the facades, coating them in carefully worked white mortar designed to imitate building blocks.

A 1758 document indicates that Constantine Mavrocordatos enlarged the building by adding two chapels to the north and south of the narthex, up to the apse windows; these appear on a 1799 plan.

In 1798, upon orders from Constantine Hangerli, the surrounding land and buildings were sold at auction, with the funds going to Curtea Nouă.

The nearby jail and its chapel were destroyed; as the latter was not rebuilt, its patron saint, Anthony, was transferred to Curtea Veche Church.

Work to repair the latter began immediately, and again from 1849, when an Austrian architect brought in a Gothic Revival style to the exterior: the spire was redone, a small portico was added, the side chapels were removed and the windows enlarged.

The interior arches were removed, their site marked by stone on the floor, while the ktetor’s grave was given a marble frame.