In 1787 the Bargjini family, feudals of Tirana, gave the permit to the Orthodox community of Tirana to construct the church, as a compensation for the protection that the community had offered in the local defense of the city against the attacks of Kurt Pasha of Berat.
A considerable part of the community were Vlachs and the codex, which included all the important activities of the church was written in Greek.
The Orthodox community of Tirana accepted moving the old church into a new building, which would be located at the Park of Saint Procopius, around 25m over the level of the old one, and around 400m away from it.
Ing Lucca & Co, Milano-Napoli was the company that built it, and the new church was ready in 1942, and inaugurated in 1945, right after World War II.
[2] In December 2017, Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj announced a project to restore the church to its pre-1967 state.