St. Martin's Church stands on Piwna Street in the Old Town of Warsaw. Siemowit III, duke of Masovia, and his wife Eufemia founded it in 1353 with an Augustinian cloister and a Holy Spirit hospital. A stone Gothic church was erected around the turn of the fifteenth century. Fires destroyed it in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Giovanni Spinola later converted it to the Baroque style.
Karol Antoni Bay rebuilt it around 1744. Its facade is of waved lines in what is called the Melted Sugar style of Rococo. Jan Jerzy Plersch designed sculptures for the central altar in 1751.
German bombing during the Warsaw Uprising destroyed the furnishings and Rococo decoration, and the church was reconstructed after the war. It is part of the Historic Centre of Warsaw, listed by UNESCO in 1980.
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