The Church of St. Francis and St. Bernardino stands in Vilnius Old Town next to St. Anne's Church. Bernardine monks first built a wooden church in the second half of the fifteenth century, then a brick one at the end of the century, and it was consecrated in 1516. The article lists Michael Enkinger, a master from Gdańsk, with a question mark.
It is Late Gothic brick, with a pediment, twin octagonal towers and eight high pillars dividing the interior into three naves. It was built into the city's defensive wall, so its walls have shooting openings. The presbytery is the oldest part. The church holds sixteenth-century wall paintings and the oldest known Lithuanian crucifix sculpture, from the fifteenth century.
Cossacks ravaged it in the war of 1655 to 1661. It was returned to the Franciscans in 1994 and is part of the UNESCO Vilnius Old Town site.
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