A growing number of citizens of the Śródmieście Południowe and Ujazdów districts of Warsaw wanted to commemorate the upcoming year 1900.

In 1900 the grounds between the Marszałkowska and Mokotowska Streets were bought, and construction began the following year.

[1] Nazis also arrested the church rector, priest Marceli Nowakowski, who was later executed in the Sejm gardens in February 1940.

[2] After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, Germans detonated explosives in the church, heavily damaging the whole building.

The main facade, facing the square, features two slim towers and sculptures of Saints Peter and Paul.