It is part of a former monastery complex built for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, established in Timișoara (Hungarian: Temesvár) in 1864, then Kingdom of Hungary.

[1] In 1864, at the initiative of the bishop of the Diocese of Csanád (based in Timișoara), Sándor Csajághy [hu], six nuns of the School Sisters of Notre Dame came to Timișoara in order to set up a girls' school.

Originally located in the Cetate district, the school became too small, and starting with 1881, the construction of an educational complex in Iosefin began, with financial help from the new bishop of Csanád, Sándor Bonnaz [hu].

[2] The church was built between 1893 and 1894 in historicist style[3] and consecrated on 8 October 1895, with the patron saint of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

[2] The main and side altars were made by the Tyrolean sculptor Ferdinand Stufflesser.