The church was designed by architect Ludwig Becker from Mainz,[1] whose preliminary draft was selected during an architectural competition in 1893.

On 21 February 2013, the church was vandalised by a man who damaged about fifteen statues and laid an Islamic prayer rug and a Qur'an which he had stolen in a mosque.

A 1897 cast of Paul Dubois's statue of Joan of Arc is located to the east of St Maurice's Church.

[1] The statue used to stand at the entrance of the church but was moved after Place Arnold was renovated.

[1] The main altar shows the life of St. Maurice, while the upper crucifix is surrounded by representations of St. Mary and St.