It is located in the center of Botoșani, Strada Victoriei no. 18.

It was founded by Mrs. Elena Rareș (widow of Prince Petru Rareș) in 1551.

The bell tower, which is located in the northern part, was built after the demolition of the 18th-century one and is similar to the one in Popăuți. A medieval cemetery was discovered in the churchyard.

The architecture of the church is similar to those built by Ștefan cel Mare, having the same greatly enlarged narthex, the capitol roof on the pendentives, but without the Gothic-style decoration of the ceramic ribs. This church was restored by Nicolae Ghika-Budești in 1911.

It is a small-scale construction, without many decorative elements and without paintings. It is a Moldavian-style building, following, with minor differences, the line of older city places of worship. The interior decoration was simple, without paintings on the walls. The floor was paved with stone slabs that remain to this day.
The first bell tower was built of wood at the church gate. Over time, the church underwent some transformations following repairs made to it, being often tested by fires and earthquakes.
The "Saint George" Church is a triconical-plan building, built of rough stone and brick; carved stone was used only at the corners of the building, at the windows and buttresses.

The profile of the plinth is quite simple. A buttress is arranged on either side of the building, in front of the arch between the nave and the altar. The apses are decorated with niches that end in double arches. The side ones have five bays each, and the eastern apse has seven. Above the bays there is a row of bays that surround the entire church.
The church tower, of polygonal shape, rests on two star bases; the upper one has two bays on each side, where we also find blind bays, and above small bays.
The bays in which there are windows (4 out of 20 bays) are wider and end with double arches. The windows are arranged in the direction of the cardinal points and have rectangular frames. There are four small buttresses on the diagonals. The entrance door is framed by a beautiful Gothic frame in a broken circle with a rectangular outer frame; above it is the pisania. A particularity of the frame are those stones with a circle marked on them that adorn the two corners. It is noted that the outer part of the frame has a joint in the axis of the door, while there is a key in the row of external stones.
The church's narthex, overextended compared to the nave, is lit by two large windows with Gothic frames, arranged in the south and west walls, covered by a hemispherical vault.
From the narthex, one enters directly into the nave, the median wall being removed here as well.
The essential element of the nave is the vault over a row of four arches in the very center, a second row of arches arranged diagonally rises, on this latter system of arches and on the upper pendentives the church tower rests. The two windows of the nave are in broken arches, but smaller than those in the narthex.
In the altar, with a quarter-sphere vault, light enters through a single window arranged in the axis, similar to those in the nave. On the north side of the apse, in the thickness of the wall, is inscribed the niche of the proskomidiary, and on the opposite side the niche of the diaconicon. Both niches are lit by small windows.

The skeleton of the iconostasis dates from 1921-1922, being made of artistically crafted wood. The icons in the iconostasis are painted in oil on wood by a painter whose name cannot be deciphered and by Grigore Zugravu in 1733 June 20, with the background blown with gold.

Saint Great Martyr George is declared the patron and protector of the city of Botoşani.

The "Saint George" Church is linked to one of the city's old seals, the seal having the symbol "Saint George riding a horse killing the dragon with a spear" on a deed from 1780 and bearing the inscription: "The seal of the Botoşani fair dedicated to Saint George, 1780".