The parish of St Catherine was founded in 1238 by Duke Konrad I of Masovia and the Bishop of Poznań, Paweł Bniński.

The layer of burnt earth indicates that a fire burned continuously for several hundred years, so the first church building may have been a former pagan shrine.

It was rebuilt in 1742 by Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski and depicted in paintings by Bernardo Bellotto and Wincenty Kasprzycki (pl).

In 1987 additional sculptures were made by a group from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw led by Andrzej Koss.

Portraits, painted using the blessed oil technique associated with the local parish, are located on the side walls of the chancel.

The current bell tower was erected on the site of a previous one in 1881, and survived World War II (like the church, rectory and curacy).