In 1631 a construction of the Church was funded by the Radziwills Krzysztof II and Anna and, in 1652, its construction was finished by their son Janusz Radziwill. It is one of the oldest and biggest Evangelical Reformed Churches in Lithuania and in the whole territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The church preserved its oak pulpit of Renaissance forms, richly ornamented with intricate carvings, with oak panels on the side niches, and an impressive chandelier. One-nave, rectangular, four-tower, of a mixed late Renaissance and Baroque style.
The Mausoleum of Dukes Radvilas within the Church is a branch of Kėdainiai Regional Museum. It houses 6 unique 17th c. sarcophagi of Dukes Radziwills: Krzysztof I 'the Thunderbolt' (1547–1603), Janusz (1612–1655), Mikolaj (1610–1611), Jerzy (1616-1617), Stefan (1624–1624) and Elzbieta (1622–1626) classified as national art monuments. This mausoleum is the first restored 17th c. tomb of the GDL noblemen in Lithuania.
The sarcophagi with remains of the dukes Radziwills family were moved to Kėdainiai Evangelical Reformed Church from Vyžuonos about 1666–1668, after the local church was converted to the Catholic church. From the second half of the 17th c. Kėdainiai became a religious centre of the Evangelical Reformed believers in the whole GDL and the Church built by the Radziwills became the family's necropolis. The sarcophagi are artworks of late Renaissance and early Baroque.
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