There is documentary evidence that some decades after the Christian conquest of the city (1238), the mosque-cathedral remained standing, even with the Koranic inscriptions on the walls, until 22 June 1262, when the then bishop, Andreu d'Albalat resolved to knock it down and build a new cathedral in its place, according to the plans of the architect Arnau Vidal.
Posvečena je bila leta 1238, s strani prvega škofa Valencije po rekonkvisti, Pere d'Albalata, nadškof Tarragona in je bila posvečena Sveti Mariji s sklepom Jakoba I. Osvajalca.