It takes its name from the Freeport of Copenhagen which had been established on the coast just east of the church a decade earlier.

The organization was founded at the initiative of Dorothea von Ripperda, a young noblewoman who learned about the severe shortage of churches in the new districts of Copenhagen at a meeting in the mission house Bethesda in 1886.

[1] The architect Thorvald Jørgensen was charged with the design of the church which was completed in 1905.

The church is oriented north-south and has a tower at its north-eastern corner.

It is built in red brick with pilasters at the corners and between the round arched windows.