In the work "The History of the Founding of the city of Bucharest – the Capital of the Kingdom of Romania – from 1330 to 1850" () collected from many early writers and gathered together in 1891 by Dimitrie Papazoglu, are recorded many texts which assert that the church was built by the shepherd Bucur. Papazoglu himself has doubts about this, suggesting that the church was built in 1568 by Alexandru II Mircea, the son of Mircea III, also known as Mircea Ciobanu, "Mircea the Shepherd" in the cemetery of the Radu Voda Monastery.