Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Sahak II, head of the Armenian Patriarchate of Turkey and Yusuf Çetin, Patriarchal Vicar of the Syriac Orthodox Church and metropolitan for Istanbul and Ankara, attend the inauguration ceremony.

The church was built on the site of the Latin Catholic Cemetery in Istanbul's Bakırköy district’s Yeşilköy neighborhood which is highly populated by the country’s Syriac community.

Assyrian churches in Turkey are known for their rich examples of craftsmanship in stone. In the newly built church, a simpler design was preferred due to environmental factors as most of the older churches have been built in Southeastern part of the county known for its fine stone materials.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Erdoğan said that the government has given back the property rights of total of 1084 immovable properties, 113 of which belong to the Assyrian community, to the foundations of the religious minorities.