The San Pedro church is, along with the Buen Pastor parish and the Santísimo Sacramento church, one of the three temples directly related to the Fernández Concha family history in Santiago. The church is located just upon where the house of this important family used to stand.

While Josefa, a nun from the order of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, was in charge of the convent located next to the Buen Pastor parish in Independencia, Rosario Fernández Concha, one of her sisters, was responsible for creating a school that shared the space upon which the family house used to stand: the “Colegio Rosa de Santiago Concha.”

Subsequently, the space used by the family house became a part of the convent and the «fourth» shelter house the order had in Chile. In 1883, Rosario transferred family lands to the Good Shepherd congregation, order to which she professed her vows before her death.

The church construction was planned in the space between the school and the congregation house. The temple was built between 1890 and 1896 under the direction of architect Emilio Doyére, and it is consecrated to Saint Peter honoring the family patriarch, Pedro Fernández Recio.

Both the church and the congregation operated as normal until 1985, when the massive earthquake that struck cities in Central Chile on March 3 caused serious damages in the church, mainly the entrance tower and certain walls, which were restored later in 1992 by architects Jorge Gómez and Juan Martínez.

In 1990, while the church was declared National Monument for representing the architectural style from late 19th century, which warranted its preservation, adjacent land where the Rosa de Santiago Concha school used to be was acquired by the Universidad Mayor that later restored and housed the Faculty of Arts of the university. In the north side, there still remains the congregation house that helps girls at social risk.