In August 1917, this association purchased plots of land in Father Ignacy Skorupki street (Nr.2/4 and 8/10) and asked local engineer Edmund Pitak to develop an initial design.

[4] At the beginning, the lack of a church led to celebrate Sundays and holidays services in the open, whereas weekdays masses were held in the soup kitchen establishment at 66 Orla street.

The latter solution was chosen and the temporary temple was set up with the help of parishioners, comprising a main altar adorned with a painting of Our Lady of Perpetual Help which came from downtown's St. Martin and St. Nicholas parish.

[5] In 1923, Bydgoszcz city council transferred the land at Orla and Dąbrowskiego streets for private construction, in exchange of which it passed a resolution giving perpetua lease for a plot where to build a church.

[4] Originally, timber framing technique was supposed to be used, but following Poznań architect Stefan Cybichowski's advice, it was decided to build a reinforced concrete nave and enlarge the church by one span.

Szweredowo residents organized performances, church fraternities and associations from all over Poland joined the movement, such as the Conference of the Ladies of Mercy of Saint Vincent de Paul (Polish: Konferencja Pań Miłosierdzia św.

At that time, the presbytery was operating as a contact cell for Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa, AK) and as a small scale clandestine seminary.

[7] On the churchyard of Our Lady of Perpetual Help at Ugory street lays a mass grave of 21 murdered Poles detained while leaving the church after a service on Sunday, September 10, 1939.

[4] Renovation works started in 1946, privately financed by Bydgoszcz citizens; interior refurbishing was led by plastic artist Władysław Pacholski.

In the following years, many overhaul actions or ornamenting projects have been carried out, among others: The church displays a national style, fashionable in Poland in the 1920s: a historicist platform combined with folk elements and a mix of neo-renaissance and neo-baroque influences.

As such, its design mirrors another contemporaneous religious building in Bydgoszcz, the church of Saint and Martyr Stanislaus of Szczepanów located at 1 Kapliczna street.

Although the use of reinforced concrete allowed an extension of the nave length, the amount of external lining made of timber framing could not comply with the fire regulations of the time and as a consequence, the body of the building had to be plastered and the tower clad with copper sheets.

The external appearance of the church is reminiscent of folk architecture, in particular the flattened onion dome steeple overhanging the main entrance columned portico.

They are associated with Greek letters inscribed in the backdrop of the board: Colors have died out a bit, but a one can notice on Mary's figure: The gold ground represents heaven.