Finished in 1908, the building is outwardly of a heavy, Romanesque Revival appearance, while its interior is in a neo-Byzantine style, with rich marble wall decorations and gold mosaics covering the domed ceiling, leading to the church sometimes being called 'Bad Homburg's Hagia Sophia'.

[1] The church was built to serve Bad Homburg's Lutheran Christians, who around the start of the 20th century suffered from lack of a sufficient congregation space.

Its construction was paid for and the design supervised by Wilhelm II, the German Emperor, who had by then made Bad Homburg a summer residence town, and later often came to worship in the church, sitting in his own imperial box with a private entrance.

Empress Auguste-Viktoria also provided the jewel-studded altar cross which was originally intended for the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem.

The church is a cross-shaped structure basilica with four towers, with blind arcades and a high two-door portal arch for the tympanum.