The parish in Sobota was established at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. After the fire of the first wooden church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in 1518 the castellan of Łęczyca Tomasz Sobocki founded the current one, dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, St. Anne and St. Isidore, which is reminded by the boulder in the external wall of the nave, above the window. The building fortunately survived the wars and has survived in an unchanged form to this day. From the source records it is known that in the 16th century in Sobota there was a hospital for the poor with its own church (hospital provostry), for which in 1544 the Archbishop Metropolitan of Gniezno and Bishop of Kraków Piotr Gamrat, Primate of Poland, donated the tithes of the archbishop's table in Żbików. This provostry still existed in the mid-18th century.
The parish church is a defensive structure made of brick and stone. The buttresses-clad body includes a nave with a porch and a chancel with an annex, which houses the sacristy and the treasury. The building is decorated with wavy gables from the east and west. There is a modest portal in the western wall. The most characteristic element of the church, attesting to its defensive nature, is a small, round tower on the south, decorated with an arcade frieze and having gun slots. Inside, there are stairs leading to the attic. The interior of the church is interesting, with star vaults. The walls are decorated with polychromes from 1905-1907 by Apoloniusz Kędzierski and from 1936 by prof. Władysław Drapiewski, in which the sixteenth-century Renaissance sandstone tombstones of local owners were set: Tomasz and Jakub Sobocki, castellans of Łęczyca (two-story) and Tomasz Sobocki, chancellor of King Sigismund the Old, as well as epitaph tablets and the classicist tombstone of Cyprian Zawisza Czarny and his wife Maria (from the nineteenth century). The famous Artur Zawisza Czarny came from this family.
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