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The funds for the construction of the parish church were collected immediately after the creation of the Walferdange parish in 1843.

Construction work started in 1845 and lasted until 1848. The drawings are signed by the "architecte provincial" Eberhard. The neoclassical style building was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. St. George is secondary patron. The church was consecrated on July 3, 1867, by the apostolic vicar Nicolas Adames.

In 1968, the church was renovated in the sprit of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council. The artist Ben Heyart created a suspended cross featuring the Risen Christ, and a new tabernacle.

The choir tapestry was designed by the Walferdange artist Alfred Steinmetzer and knit in the workshops of Art-Domus in Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic.

The former St.George's chapel (rue Josy Welter) was the first sanctuary at Walferdange. We do not know when it was built. It is first documented in 1570. A written source from 1685 indicates that it had meanwhile been consecrated to the Holy Trinity. As of 1713, a priest served at Walferdange. The chapel was thoroughly renovated in 1750. A report describes the chapel as necessary, because Walferdange is situated at 3/4 of an hour's walk from the Steinsel parish church and the road was hardly practicable due to the frequent floods of the Alzette River. The chapel's gable is still visible today in the eastern wall of the "Centre Princesse Amélie" (former school).