King Sigismund III ordered a small Orthodox chapel on the site in 1620, and the Dominicans looked after the building from 1668 to 1808. Stanisław Staszic bought it in 1818 and commissioned a renovation, which Antonio Corazzi carried out in neoclassical style from 1820 to 1823. Volodymyr Pokrovskyi remodeled it in Russo-Byzantine style in 1892 and 1893, and Marian Lalewicz restored a Polish neoclassical look in 1924 to 1926.
It was damaged in the 1939 siege and nearly razed in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Piotr Biegański rebuilt it in its original neoclassical form in 1946 to 1950. The article gives no materials or dimensions.
It is the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences, on Nowy Świat. It is a Historic Monument of Poland, designated in 1994.
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