Pržno, one of the villages of the Vsetín Hills is located near the Vsetín Bečva river between the towns of Vsetín and Valašské Meziříčí, 330 metres above sea level, has about 660 inhabitants. First records about Pržno date back to 1372. In 1505 it was already mentioned as a little town, and its old town seal was used even till 1856. The Wallachian uprising during the Thirty Years‘ War was put down cruelly in 1644 and Pržno was burnt down by the imperial army.
The Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary Birth was built in 1889 on the place of a ruined, originally Gothic church from 1525. The stone crucifix dates to the late 18th century. There is also a memorable lime tree which is at least 300 years old and a war memorial commemorating the victims of World War I and World War II, built in front of a former Protestant school in 1924.
There were a lot of secret Protestants in Pržno and its neighbourhood resisting counter-Reformation for a long time and taking part in the great Wallachian uprising in 1777–1781. After the Toleration Patent was issued, they chose the Augsburg confession. The congregation was founded in 1782 and the first toleration house of prayer was built a year later. The issue of the Protestant Patent initiated construction of a new church. The foundation stone was laid in 1866 and in six years, a spacious Neo-Gothic chuch was built according to Václav Urbánek‘s, Vsetín builder, architectural design.
The church was opened and the first ceremonial worship was held on the 27th of October 1872. The one-nave building has a slender tower visible from a long distance. Its organ was assembled by K. Neusser from Nový Jičín. The old rectory from 1782 was replaced by a new one in the 1930s, and a winter house of prayer was additionally built later. The congregation has its preaching station in a nearby village of Mikulůvka.