Trinitatis Church stands at the corner of Landemærket and Købmagergade in central Copenhagen. King Christian IV commissioned a complex that included a church, a library and an astronomical observatory. Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger, Leonhard Blasius and Albertus Mathiesen built it. The foundation stone was laid on July 7, 1637, the Round Tower was completed in 1642, and the church was consecrated on Trinity Sunday in 1656. A year later the university library was installed in the loft.
The Round Tower stands at the west end, and a flèche over the chancel houses the bells. The church style is Gothic Survival.
A fire in 1728 caused major damage to the interior, and the church was rebuilt and rededicated in 1731 in a Northern Gothic-Baroque style. Friederich Ehbisch made the altarpiece and pulpit.
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