The Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Gniezno was built in 1524 on the site of the burnt wooden Church Jan and elżbieta Shematovich. In 2012, it was noted 488 anniversary of the temple. Once at the place where the Church was an ancient pagan temple. When restoration work in the nineteenth century were found sacrificial stones.

Not spared the Church and the reformation. From 1555 to the year 1643, the Church was Calvinist Cathedral. In 1643 he returned to the bosom of the Catholic Church.
The Church was built with a large safety margin. Its thick walls could withstand a siege of the enemies. The temple was used as a fortification in all wars, as evidenced by the inside masonry Cannonball.

In 1838 the Church was set on fire. Everything that could burn was burned. In 1844 his recovery was donated a considerable amount G. Tarasevich. In 1926 there was a reconstruction of the temple and built the tower. In the years 1930-1932 restoration work was carried out by architect T. Plucinski.

The USSR had created a special Committee charged with studying the history of the temple and its restoration. In the late 1980-ies the Church was abandoned. In 1989 the Church was returned to believers, however, for the period when it was empty, the Church managed to significantly decay. For its restoration came from a Catholic priest Ludwik, who took the temple on behalf of the Catholic Church. During this time had done a lot of work on restoration and promotion of the temple as a tourist object.

The Church preserved the ancient fence, the gate, the chapel and cemetery. In the Church there is a sculpture that date back to the XVII-XVIII century.