 In 1855 pastor Niels Pedersen Grunnet founded an evangelical-Lutheran congregation in Copenhagen.The architects Alfred Jensen and August Johansen were commissioned to design a church for the congregation in the mid-1870s and a site was purchased on the east side of Vodroffsvej in Fredeirksberg.The foundation stone was set on 18 March 1877 and the church was consecrated on 19 August that same year.