Alexander is the oldest church in the Catholic church today in Kiev. Of course, before that churches in the city were, but they were made of wood and often suffered from fires. This went on for quite some time, until the early nineteenth century, the Roman Catholic community in the city is not decided on the construction of more substantial building.

The name of church was due to Emperor Alexander I, to which Kiev Catholics have applied for permission to build. The emperor agreed to build a church with only one condition - to give the name of the temple of his patron saint. Unfortunately, there is still no consensus on the name of the architect who designed the church. Some historians believe that it was the architect of Dominican pylori, others, citing the high cost of its project, is credited with authorship of the St. Petersburg architect Visconti. Still others argue that the drawings Visconti mysteriously disappeared and the temple built Kiev architect Mehovich, and this is not all versions.

One way or another, but Alexander's church, the construction of which the funds were going to more than one year with the Polish gentry (25 cents for each serf), was officially founded in 1817. Construction was delayed for years, and only in 1847 Alexander Church, built in the tradition of the then popular classicism, was consecrated and began to carry out its functions.

For a half-century of its existence, the Alexandrovsky church more than once at the center of events. It is here that sang patriotic songs during the Polish uprising, it immediately baptized world-renowned artist Kazimir Malevich. Having lived through the years of Soviet power as a planetarium, the branch libraries and houses of scientific atheism in the 90 years the church was returned to the Catholic community of the city of Kiev, has been restored and even won the visit of Pope John Paul II.