The building was listed as a culture monument of Albania.

It was the place where the national hero Gjergj Kastriot Skenderbeg married[citation needed].

[2] Gani Stratizmiri filed a lawsuit with the prosecutor, because at the time, it had been a culture monument for about 20 years, and it was carrying a sign that it protected by the state.

Prosecutor justified the perpetrators on the grounds that they acted without knowing that the church was a culture monument.

The church is illustrated on the 1000 lek currency note in 1996:[5]