[1] In the 19th century, a large number of English and American artists, students[2] and business people lived in the cultural and trade fair city of Leipzig.

His designs for the building project were used for the Anglican St. Luke's Church[5] in the bohemian town of Karlovy Vary, which was built between 1876 and 1877 (as a kind of "twin sister"), which may have delayed the start of construction in Leipzig.

In 1883, the city of Leipzig gave the Anglican community building land in Bismarckstrasse (later Ferdinand-Lassalle-Strasse) at the northwest end of Johannapark.

In May 1884, the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone took place in the presence of the Anglican Bishop for Northern and Central Europe, Jonathan Titcomb, and prominent representatives of the city.

[4] During the Weimar Republic, the building was used by a German free church, the Pentecostal congregation "Christliche Gemeinde e.

[4] During the Allied air raids on Leipzig on 4 December 1943 and in the spring of 1945, the church, like other buildings of the southern Bachstrasse was badly damaged.

[9] After the Second World War, it was briefly used as a material storage facility until it was blown up - so its damage still allowed this type of use.