St. Casimir Church stands on the New Town Market Square in Warsaw. It began as the Kotowski Palace, which Queen Marie Casimire, consort of John III Sobieski, bought in 1688 to house the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. The Dutch-born architect Tylman van Gameren designed the church, and it was built from 1688 to 1692. The facade is Baroque with a Palladian-influenced design. A large dome rises over a basic Greek cross plan.
Inside were trompe-l'oeil altars of 1718 to 1721, a late Baroque flower-shaped pulpit, and a rococo organ of 1745 to 1748.
It served as a hospital during the Warsaw Uprising. A German bombing raid on August 31, 1944 killed four priests, 35 nuns and over a thousand civilians sheltering there. The church was reconstructed from 1947 to 1953, and its interior was rebuilt in a modern style.
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