The Wrocław master builder Albrecht von Saebisch designed the project, and the carpenter Andreas Kaemper built it. The foundation stone was laid on August 23, 1656, and the first service took place on June 24, 1657, after about ten months of construction. Silesian Evangelicals of all social classes took part, and Christian Czepko raised funds at European Protestant courts. The article names no formal client.
It is Baroque and built of wattle and daub, a wooden frame filled with clay and straw. The church is 144 feet (44 m) long and 100 feet (30.5 m) wide, on a Greek cross plan. It could hold about 7,500 people, with 3,000 seats. The bell tower and school were added in 1708, and the present organ dates from 1909.
It belongs to an Evangelical-Augsburg parish and is a UNESCO site since 2001.
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