The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul stands in Vilnius's Antakalnis neighborhood, on a small hill near the Neris River. Jan Zaor of Kraków designed and began it, and Giovanni Battista Frediani finished the building in 1676. Michał Kazimierz Pac funded it to commemorate the expulsion of Muscovite forces from Vilnius after six years of occupation. Construction began on June 29, 1668. Pac died in 1682, interrupting the decoration, and the church was consecrated in 1701. The infobox gives 1701 as completion.
The Baroque interior holds some 2,000 stucco figures by Giovanni Pietro Perti, with ornament by Giovanni Maria Galli. Final decoration was completed in 1704.
The monastery closed in 1864 and became barracks. World War II damaged the dome, and it was rebuilt to its original design. Interior restoration ran from 1976 to 1987, and the church became a Cultural Monument of Lithuania in 2008.
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