It is designated as a Cultural Property of National Significance[1] During the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century, the city of Bern adopted the new Protestant faith and the city's churches converted, leaving the remaining Catholics in Bern without a church.

Following the French invasion of Switzerland in 1798 and the political reforms of the Helvetic Republic, the catholic community of Bern held mass in the choir of the Bern Minster until 1803.

[2] The church was designed by H Marchal and Pierre-Joseph Edmond Deperthes in the style of the Romanesque and French cathedral Gothic.

Construction began in 1858 under the supervision of Emmanuel Müller and was completed in 1864.

[2] Media related to Kirche St. Peter und Paul (Bern) at Wikimedia Commons