St. John the Evangelist – Gothic Church located in Szczecin. It is the only surviving building from the entire monastic complex of the Franciscans. Currently, the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist is part of the European route of brick Gothic.

The Franciscans came from Westphalia in Szczecin in about 1240. Pomeranian Duke Barnim I the Good, founded the monastery for the Franciscans. The monastery itself was probably of wood, and the Church was built of brick in several stages. First there was the altar was built, about the year 1300, and later were built 10 chapels between the buttresses.

During the reformation, the monks left the monastery. From that time until 1945, the Church became the Evangelical Church, which was repeatedly repaired (in 1702, the years 1834-1837). In the second half of the sixteenth century, the monastic buildings were converted into a hospital, and the Church worked until the French occupation in 1806, when seven years the Church was converted into a warehouse.

In subsequent years it was closed, as was on the verge of collapse. Thanks to a study by German historian and restorer of Professor Hugo Lemke, in the twenties began restoration of the Church that saved the building from destruction. The old buildings of the monastery were demolished in the mid-nineteenth century.

In the interior of the Church houses valuable paintings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. One of them shows the boy with the coat of arms of the city of Szczecin. In another work depicts Mary surrounded by saints. The main altar was designed by Professor John Pyasetsky from Poznan, pulpit and candlesticks belong to the hand of the master Romuald Vogt. In the Church are preserved the Baroque organ of the second half of the eighteenth century.

In 1957-1958 was carried out major repairs of the Church, then the Church was transferred to the missionary society of Palotina.