Dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Salzburg.

[2] It is believed that Mozart's Missa brevis in D Minor, K. 65, was commissioned by the church and premiered on 4 February 1769.

In 2008, Salvatore Sciarrino's opera Luci mie traditrici was staged by Rebecca Horn.

The church is a listed monument and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Salzburg [de].

He designed a hall with white walls without paintings which became a model for late-baroque churches in southern Germany.