In the interwar period, the cemetery ceased to be the burial place only for poor, as people from higher social strata began to bury their relatives.

[3] During World War II the cemetery was used as an arsenal by various Polish resistance organizations,[1] and as a hiding place by those on the run from the Gestapo.

The church, designed by architect Edward Cichocki, was built from pine wood, and is a simple one-nave building.

The new building was gradually expanded in the early 1980s and was again ceremonially consecrated by Primate of Poland Józef Glemp on 22 September 1984.

[5] Notable people buried at Bródno Cemetery include politician and statesman Roman Dmowski, archbishop Aleksander Kakowski, singer Mieczysław Fogg, footballer Edmund Zientara, boxer Antoni Kolczyński, bishop Stanisław Kędziora, writer Seweryna Szmaglewska, politician Paweł Wypych, and industrialist Cezary Skoryna.