The first church was built in Renaissance style in the fifteenth century but it was rebuilt in the seventeenth century by the Dominican priest and Andrea Cirrincione, while the façade with two bell towers is even more recent, from the eighteenth century.
So today we have a sober Baroque church.

The interior is very spacious with eight columns on each side, in Tuscan style, which divide the three naves according to the classic tradition. The many chapels house valuable works of art, many of which date back to the first church, built in the fifteenth century. It has to to be mentioned, on the holy water, a marble bas-relief of the thirteenth century at the arrival of the first Dominicans in Palermo. Object of great devotion "to the San Maronna Numinicu" in Palermo dialect, which is exposed in the months of May and October to the worship of the faithful. It is a wooden sculpture group depicting the Madonna and Jesus and St. Dominic receiving the Rosary, by Girolamo Bagnasco.
The main altar contains the urn with the relics of Blessed Peter Geremia, a Dominican writer of Palermo from the XV century. Among the characters who have been buried in this church there are, inter alia, Francesco Crispi, the Marquis of Villabianca, an erudite and eccentric character of the eighteenth century Palermo, Lauretta Li Greci and Joseph Turrisi Colonna, two young women poets who lived in Sicily in the first half of the nineteenth century.