[1] The church was founded in 1571 in the village of Faithlie which was soon to be built up into the town of Fraserburgh by the local landowner, Sir Alexander Fraser.

From the building of the Kirk in 1571 until 1600, Scotland's official religion was Presbyterian, as a result of the Scottish Reformation of 1560.

When King James VI introduced Episcopacy as the official religion in 1600, Fraserburgh had a devout Presbyterian in the pulpit.

Charles Ferm MA (c.1565–1617), was appointed to the Kirk in 1599[2] and rejected the King's new style of religious government.

In 1607 he was summoned before the Privy Council, and was sentenced to confinement on the Isle of Bute, where he was imprisoned for nearly three years.

Events seem abnormally quiet for the times which suggest that the Kirk had undergone a contented shift to Episcopacy by the 1640s.

When the unfortunate representative of the Presbytery in 1706 came to declare and induct the new minister, the church was stormed and he was flung from the pulpit.

Although the new minister built up the congregation throughout his 47-year ministry, the Episcopalians tried to storm and take the kirk on several occasions up until the 1740s.

John Cumming, seemed all set to join the schism but, to the surprise to most, stayed within the Established Church.

In 1898 the new pipe organ was installed, and 1906 saw the dedication of the impressive Anderson memorial stained-glass window, designed by Douglas Strachan.

W. Neil Sutherland, tried in his short ministry to boost congregation numbers by encouraging church social and youth groups.

On one occasion a sheet of metal fell through the church roof during a bombing raid, slicing a small chip on the pulpit.

In his ministry the "Penny Schoolie" was renovated in 1976 for better accommodation, a new church centre built in 1990–92, and a special "Youth Dedication Service" has been held annually for years.

Park was inducted in November 2007 and oversaw the development of a hand bell group (The Clangers) which was founded in the last year of the Clyne ministry.

Park was also a noted name at the 2009 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland when he openly opposed the appointment of the Rev.

Scott Rennie - an openly gay minister and divorced father of one - stating, “There is a danger that we will make a decision [about homosexuality in the ministry] based on the prevailing culture of our time.’ He was defeated.