The Church of St. Gertrude stands in the Old Town of Kaunas, just off Freedom Avenue, and is reached through a gate at a nearby hotel. It is one of the oldest Brick Gothic churches in Lithuania, built of clay brick in the Late Gothic style. It was built as a churchyard chapel on a former burial ground near the city border in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. In 1503 Grand Duke Alexander designated it a parish church of Kaunas. A bell tower was added in the mid-sixteenth century.
The Russo-Polish War damaged it in 1655, and it was rebuilt around 1680. It was consecrated in 1794 and renovated in 1796, when organs were installed. A fire in 1812 damaged it, and the monastery closed in 1864.
The Marian Fathers received the church in 1921. Mass resumed in 1991, and a renovation followed in 1992.
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