St. John the Evangelist - a Gothic church located in Szczecin. It is the only surviving building from the entire monastery complex of the Franciscans. Currently, the church of St. John the Evangelist is part of European route of brick Gothic.

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

During the Reformation, the monks left the monastery. From that time until 1945, the church was turned into an evangelical church that was repaired several times (in 1702, the years 1834-1837). In the second half of the sixteenth century, the monastery buildings were turned into a hospital, and the church operated until the French occupation in 1806, when for seven years, the church was converted into a warehouse.

In subsequent years it was closed, as it was on the verge of collapse. Through the study of the German historian and restorer Professor Hugh Lemke, in the twenties began the restoration of the church, which saved the building from destruction. The old monastery buildings were demolished in the mid-nineteenth century.

The interior of the church there are valuable paintings fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. On one of them depicts a 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 Piasecki from Poznan, the pulpit and the candle belongs hand of the master Romuald Soltys. The church preserved baroque organ of the second half of the eighteenth century.

In 1957-1958 was a major overhaul of the church, then the church was handed over to the missionary society pallottines.