St. Mary's Church stands on the Ziegenmarkt in Rostock and is the largest of the city's three town churches. A church on the site is first mentioned in 1232, and in 1265 it was named the main parish church. It was built in the thirteenth century and enlarged in the late fourteenth. It is a brick Gothic basilica with three naves and a cross-shaped plan. It was Catholic until the Reformation in 1531 and has been Lutheran since.
The south transept holds a stained glass window 26 meters tall, showing the Day of Judgement and made from 1894 to 1904. The church also has a Renaissance pulpit of 1574 and a baroque organ facade of 1770 with 83 stops. A bronze baptismal font dates from 1290.
RAF air raids damaged the church in 1942, but a sexton put out incendiary bombs and saved it.
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