In the eighteenth century, Biała lay on the south-western edge of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. As a recently established town, it attracted entrepreneurial evangelicals who in neighbouring Cieszyn Silesia did not possess the freedom of professing their faith as well as of erecting their own churches. After the partition act of 1772 and the 1781 Patent of Toleration evangelicals were allowed to build a church, and they quickly seized that opportunity. In 1792-1798, an elegant Classicist building was erected, which is still the pride of Bielsko-Biala.