diff --git a/eessi_bot_event_handler.py b/eessi_bot_event_handler.py
index e750f5e5..c265e5fd 100644
--- a/eessi_bot_event_handler.py
+++ b/eessi_bot_event_handler.py
@@ -476,6 +476,36 @@ def handle_bot_command_show_config(self, event_info, bot_command):
         issue_comment = self.handle_pull_request_opened_event(event_info, pr)
         return f"\n  - added comment {issue_comment.html_url} to show configuration"
 
+    def handle_bot_command_status(self, event_info, bot_command):
+        """
+        Handles bot command 'status' by running the handler for events of
+        type pull_request with the action opened.
+
+        Args:
+            event_info (dict): event received by event_handler
+            bot_command (EESSIBotCommand): command to be handled
+
+        Returns:
+            (string): table which collects the status of each target
+        """
+        self.log("processing bot command 'status'")
+        gh = github.get_instance()
+        repo_name = event_info['raw_request_body']['repository']['full_name']
+        pr_number = event_info['raw_request_body']['issue']['number']
+        status_table = request_bot_build_issue_comments(repo_name, pr_number)
+        
+        comment = f"This is the status of all the `bot: build` commands:"
+        comment += f"\n|arch|result|date|status|url|"
+        comment += f"\n|----|------|----|------|---|"
+        for x in range(0,len(status_table['date'])):
+            comment += f"\n|{status_table['arch'][x]}|{status_table['result'][x]}|{status_table['date'][x]}|{status_table['status'][x]}|{status_table['url'][x]}|"
+
+        self.log(f"PR opened: comment '{comment}'")
+        repo = gh.get_repo(repo_name)
+        pull_request = repo.get_pull(pr_number)
+        issue_comment = pull_request.create_issue_comment(comment)
+        return issue_comment
+
     def start(self, app, port=3000):
         """
         Logs startup information to shell and log file and starts the app using
diff --git a/tasks/build.py b/tasks/build.py
index e3f0bc8c..3a1374dd 100644
--- a/tasks/build.py
+++ b/tasks/build.py
@@ -760,3 +760,59 @@ def check_build_permission(pr, event_info):
     else:
         log(f"{fn}(): GH account '{build_labeler}' is authorized to build")
         return True
+
+def request_bot_build_issue_comments(repo_name, pr_number):
+    status_table = {'arch': [], 'date': [], 'status': [], 'url': [], 'result': []}
+    cfg = config.read_config()
+    
+    # for loop because github has max 100 items per request. 
+    # if the pr has more than 100 comments we need to use per_page 
+    # argument at the moment the for loop is for a max of 400 comments could bump this up
+    for x in range(1,5):
+        curl_cmd = f'curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/{repo_name}/issues/{pr_number}/comments?per_page=100&page={x}'
+        curl_output, curl_error, curl_exit_code = run_cmd(curl_cmd, "fetch all comments")
+        
+        comments = json.loads(curl_output)
+        
+        for comment in comments: #iterate through the comments to find the one where the status of the build was in
+            if config.read_config()["submitted_job_comments"]['initial_comment'][:20] in comment['body']:
+
+                #get archictecture from comment['body']
+                first_line = comment['body'][:comment['body'].find('/n')]
+                arch_map = get_architecture_targets(cfg)
+                for arch in arch_map.keys():
+                    target_arch = '/'.join(arch.split('/')[1:])
+                    if target_arch in first_line:
+                        status_table['arch'].append(target_arch)
+
+                #get date, status, url and result from the markdown table
+                comment_table = comment['body'][comment['body'].find('|'):comment['body'].rfind('|')+1]
+
+                # Convert markdown table to a dictionary
+                lines = comment_table.split('\n')
+                ret = []
+                keys = []
+                for i,l in enumerate(lines):
+                    if i==0:
+                        keys=[_i.strip() for _i in l.split('|')]
+                    elif i==1: continue
+                    else:
+                        ret.append({keys[_i]:v.strip() for _i,v in enumerate(l.split('|')) if  _i>0 and _i<len(keys)-1})
+                
+                # add date, status, url to  status_table if 
+                for row in ret:
+                    if row['job status'] == 'finished':
+                        status_table['date'].append(row['date'])
+                        status_table['status'].append(row['job status'])
+                        status_table['url'].append(comment['html_url'])
+                        if 'FAILURE' in row['comment']:
+                            status_table['result'].append(':cry: FAILURE')
+                        elif 'SUCCES' in row['comment']:
+                            status_table['result'].append(':grin: SUCCESS')
+                        elif 'UNKNOWN' in row['comment']:
+                            status_table['result'].append(':shrug: UNKNOWN')
+                        else:
+                            status_table['result'].append(row['comment'])
+        if len(comments) != 100:
+            break
+    return status_table