The church is one of the oldest ones in Prague. Its Romanesque foundations are dated around 1240, but the church was probably established even earlier. The building itself has always been plain. It had not been rebuilt or extended even after the Hussite wars in the first half of the 15th century, when the church was damaged. When local hospital of Malá Strana was moved to the area belonging to the church in the 17th century, the church itself was renovated. The early baroque arcade building of the hospital forms together with the church a unique composition. Significant but delicate baroque changes were made in the first half of the 18th century - chapel with oratory in the northern part of church and ne shapes of windows in the opposite wall and in the western facade. The quality and style shows that the author could be Kilian Ignac Dientzenhofer, who was very active in the area.

Both the church and the hospital were abolished in 1784. The hospital buildings were used as residential houses and the church as laundry (hence the name sv. Jana "Na prádle" - St. John "At the Laundry"). After the renovation in 1939, the church was given to the use of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. The church was renovated again in the summer of 2002. Shortly after the reconstruction it was strongly damaged by flood in August 2002 and had to be renovatd again. The statue in the front of the church symbolizes St. Jan Nepomucký. It is work of Michal Josef Brokoff from 1715. In the interior we can find a few paintings and  sculptures from František Bílek (1872 - 1941).

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