Worth a Detour
Red Church
The red-brick Catholic Church of Saints Simon and Helena on Independence Square.
US travel advisory: Level 4, Do Not Travel · checked 2026-11-03- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 30 minutes
- Address
- Savetskaya Street 15, MinskDirections
- Getting There
- Ploshcha Lenina metro station.
Why Go
A Polish-Belarusian landowner built the church from 1905 to 1910 in memory of his two children who died young. The Soviets turned it into a cinema; it was returned to the Catholic Church in 1990.
Nearby in Minsk
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