Built on the site of an older church dating from the start of the 16th century, local historians are of the general opinion that this often overlooked masterpiece once stood in a place called Kaunakiemis, now long since incorporated into the city’s boundaries. Building work on the current structure began on July 23, 1685 under the auspices of Kazimieras Žodkevičius, supposedly to a design by one of the architects who worked on the Pažaislis complex, and was completed 15 years later. Featuring two distinctive towers that weren’t completed until the end of the 19th century, the cross-shaped Late Baroque church hides a wealth of chapels, frescoes and other works of art inside added over the centuries. Like the great majority of religious buildings in the country, the church has been the victim of numerous regimes over the centuries, and was for a time among other things a warehouse under tsarist Russian rule although it did survive fairly intact through the years of Soviet occupation and even contains works of art dating from this period.