Location Kaunas, Lithuania Architectural type Church Direction of façade North Phone +370 37 221661 Architectural style Gothic architecture | Affiliation Roman Catholic Completed 1759 Opened 1759 District Centras Year consecrated 1720 | |
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Address Rotušės a. 8, Kaunas 44280, Lithuania Similar Kaunas Cathedral Basilica, Vytautas' the Great Church, Christ's Resurrection Church - K, St Michael the Archange, House of Perkūnas | ||
Church of St. Francis Xavier (Lithuanian: Šv. Pranciškaus Ksavero bažnyčia) is located in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. The church dedicated to St. Francis Xavier was built at the Town Hall Square in the Old Town of Kaunas by Jesuits. They opened their first residence in Kaunas in 1642 and established a chapel in the House of Perkūnas in 1643. Later they also founded a first four-form school in the city in 1649. The construction of the church started in 1666, and it was consecrated in 1722.
Tsarist Russian government gave the church to the Orthodox church for their use in 1824. The church was again assigned to the Jesuits only in 1924. After Lithuania was occupied by Soviets the St. Francis Xavier church was turned into a technical school, the interior of the church was used as a hall of sports. The church was returned again to the Jesuits in 1989. A renovation of the church took place in 1992.