A wooden church dedicated to Saint Marguerite stood on this site in the fourteenth century. A fire destroyed a later church in the eighteenth century, and a new one with a bulbous steeple replaced it. The Orthodox parish bought the old church at auction in the Josephinist period. In 1861 an initiative launched a new church, and Franjo Klein was awarded the project.
The church was completed on October 21, 1866. Hermann Bollé made a reorganization plan in 1897, a bell tower plan in 1899 and a facade restoration in 1913. The article describes the style as a historicist interpretation of Romanesque and Byzantine architecture. The iconostasis, built in 1884, has 34 icons and four free-standing walnut pillars.
It became a cathedral in 1931 and is now the cathedral of the Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana. It underwent reconstruction after the 2020 earthquake.
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