The chapel served as a parish church from 1736 to 1756 until the completion of the Church of Our Lady of the Conception of Praia, now known as the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Salvador. Gonçalves built the church with a façade facing the Bay of All Saints; he later reduced the size of the structure in half and change the direction of the façade and interior. The coexistence of the brotherhoods at the church was not always peaceful. Relationships between them worsened after the War of Independence, where fighting occurred in Bahia between 1822 and 1823.