Alexander's Church is the oldest Catholic Church of Kyiv. Of course, before this there were churches, but they were wooden and often suffered from fires. This continued for a long time, until in the early NINETEENTH century the Roman Catholic community of the city has not decided on the erection of more substantial buildings.

The name of the Church was due to the Emperor Alexander I, to which Kiev Catholics asked for permission to build. The Emperor agreed to build a Church with only one condition – to give the Church the name of his patron Saint. Unfortunately, so far there is no consensus on the name of the architect who designed the Church. Some historians believe that it was the architect's Dominican of Pelor, other, citing the high cost of his project, is credited with the authorship of the Petersburg architect Visconti. Others claim that the drawings Visconti inexplicably disappeared and the temple building of the Kiev architect Mehovich, and it's not all version.

Anyway, Alexander's Church, the construction of which means going more than one year with the Polish nobility (25 cents for every serf), was solemnly laid in 1817. Construction was delayed for years, and only in 1847 Alexander's Church, built in the then popular traditions of classicism, was consecrated and began to perform its functions.

During the half century of its existence, Alexander Church, not once was the centre of events. It is here that sang Patriotic songs during the Polish uprisings, it is here baptized painter Kazimir Malevich. Having survived the years of Soviet power as the planetarium, the branch library and the house of scientific atheism in the 90-ies the Church was returned to the Catholic community of the city of Kiev, was restored and even won the visit of Pope John Paul II.