The village of Bruiu, or Braller in German, is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1307. Towards 1500 the community became free, being included in the Seat of Cincu.

At the middle of the 13th century, a Romanesque basilica was built in the center of the village, with three naves and a tower overlapping the western part of the central nave. The portal was on the western side, and the vaulted ground floor opened towards the aisles and the main nave through three semicircular arches. We can only speculate on the ceiling of the main nave, since the choir and the aisles were covered with cross vaults, and the apse with a semi – calotte. 

In 1521 the House of the Province of Sibiu offered support to the community in Bruiu. This period corresponds to the main transformations of the Saxon churches in Transylvania, so the changes made inside the church can be attributed to this phase. As in other cases the aisles were demolished by closing the arches that communicated with the tower. The main nave and the choir acquired star vaults supported by pillars decorated with simple reliefs. The choir was fortified by overlapping three levels that formed a tower, and on the inside, towards the central nave, the chancel arch was modified, gaining an ogival shape. The last level of the western belfry received a timber defense gallery, and around the church an oval curtain wall was built, interrupted by a tower on the south side and by the belfry on the west. Given the new configuration through which the west tower became a precinct tower, a new entrance appeared on the south side of the choir. 

A second precinct, this time a polygonal one, replaced the perimetral enclosure at an unknown date. This one was provided with four towers and a fortified house on the south side. On the inside, the curtain wall received a wall-passage supported by arcades on the inferior levels. Some parts of the wall have three overlapping galleries corresponding to three series of embrasures on the outside. The access to the second precinct is made through the barrel vaulted ground floor of the west tower. 

In 1845 the old choir was joined with another one covered with a barrel vault, the new apse being given a penetration vault. At the same time the aisles were rebuilt with the same height as the main nave but shorter than the old ones, and as a result the belfry remained attached to the western façade. Inside the church, lofts were built on the north and south sides. Through these transformations the building was turned into a hall-church. Also, a new entrance opened on the north side. 

Around the middle of the 20th century the tower overlapping the old choir was destroyed. Along the years the old precinct disappeared, either because it was demolished or in order to expand the larger precinct, or because it was damaged. 

The polyptych altarpiece is from 1520 and in the middle it has a sculpture of Saint Mary with the Child, two fixed side panels and other two mobile ones covering the central sculpture. The organ made in the 20th century was restaured in 1880 by Wilhelm Hörbiger. The Baroque pulpit is from 1667, and its canopy from 1776.