The building was originally part of the Dominican (Jacobin) monastery founded in 1245.

In 1256 the famous theologian Albertus Magnus visited the monastery and preached in the church.

There were concerts in the church by the famous organists Camille Saint-Saëns in 1897 and Albert Schweitzer in 1932.

[5] Members of the Frisian Nassaus were entombed in the royal crypt in the choir of the church.

The fiftieth anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina's reign in 1948 prompted the rehabilitation of the stadtholder's burial space.

The rightmost window was designed by artist Dick Osinga and made by Willem Bogtman in 1963.

This is the "Wilhelmina window" and represents the resurrection of the Dutch people from World War II and the reconstruction.