Late Gothic Church of St. Catherine is one of the most beautiful churches in Banská Štiavnica. It is called "Slovak" because since 1658 it has been preached in Slovak.

Church of St. Catherine was built in 1488-1491. Until 1500, work was done on its interior decoration. It has one nave vaulted with a late Gothic star vault that passes into the presbytery. The nave is flanked on both sides by side chapels, which are half lower than it. In In 1776, the chapel of St. Ján Nepomucký. Beneath the church is a crypt in which mayors and prominent citizens were buried. A cross, a late-Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary and a stone baptistery have been preserved from the church's interior from the 15th century. The organ is from the workshop of a home craftsman from the end of the 18th century. The original main altar came from the workshop of the mysterious Master M. S. Two beautiful statues of St. Barbara and St. Catherine from the old altar can be seen in the Jozef Kollár Gallery. Panel paintings from the original altar are scattered around the world. One is in the museum in Lille, France, the other in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, four in the Christian Museum in Ostrichom, one is completely lost. The last painting from the rare collection - the painting of the Nativity - is in the church in Svätý Anton.