It has a high bell tower and a large purple dome which used to be blue until it was changed in the year of 2009.

The church was built during the Ottoman era under Uthman al-Zahir, son of the autonomous Arab ruler Zahir al-Umar, who made a promise to build it if his fort was finished successfully, so its history goes back to that of Uthman's fort.

It remains standing today and is the main church of the Greek Catholic community of Shefa-'Amr.

During the years 2010-2011 the church went through a major improvement process where the walls stones were cleaned and polished, old stone walls that were covered in the past with cement were revealed to get their original old shape, the dome was re-painted and air-conditioning was installed inside.

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