The church was affected by a fire during an Allied bombing raid on April 6, 1944. According to other report, the incident was triggered by accident by the cook of a German military unit stationed in the service premises of the church. Part of the church plate was brought out of the burning building and was subsequently taken over by the Bulgarian church authorities. During the bombing, a number of properties of the BOC's Skopje diocese were seriously damaged. According to the controversial Macedonian historiographycal data the church was burned up deliberately by the Bulgarian "fascistic occupiers".