The frescoes of the baroque parish church and of the high altar depicting the patron saint of the town, Mary Magdalene, who is also present in the town’s coat of arms, were made by Austrian master painter Johann Ignaz Cimbal. Of the art treasures of the interior of the church built in baroque style the Pieta statue is outstanding. It originally stood on a high white stone pedestal at the end of the town’s high street. For this reason, the high street was referred to as Fehérkép utca (White Picture Street). Next to the building a plaque and a statue commemorate Prince Primate and Archbishop of Esztergom József Mindszenty, who served the town as a priest here for 25 years. The square in front of the church, named after Mindszenty is adorned by the Holy Trinity statue erected in 1810.

Dezső Keresztury, the Zalaegerszeg-born poet and writer (1904–1996) expressed his views on the church as follows, “… the artistically most significant building of the town … There it sat, in the middle of the town, built in Transdanubian baroque style, clumsy but still attractive in its coarseness, voluminous and flattened to the ground as a thoughtful brood-hen.”