Church of St. Joseph in Minsk was once part of a thriving Bernardine monastery, occupied an entire city block. Even the streets, limiting the quarter called Big and Small Bernardine.

Bernardine monks arrived in Minsk at the invitation of the headman Krasnoselski Konsovskiy Andrew and his brother Ian in the middle of the XVII century. The brothers built their first monks wooden cells, as well as the first wooden church in 1630.

Over the next century Bernardine complex and the Church of St. Joseph was repeatedly burned and rebuilt, gradually acquiring architectural features of the Vilnius Baroque style.

In its present form, the former Church of St. Joseph is a three-nave basilica with a crazy high central nave. The central part of the facade is highlighted by high pilasters with capitals on the side of the facade preserved niches in which were once installed sculptures of saints.

Once the Church of St. Joseph was one of the most beautiful temples of Minsk and the symbol of the city, along with the town hall and shopping arcade. Inside its decorated frescoes, rich decor, majestic altar with many sculptures. In 1864, Bernardine monastery in Minsk was abolished for the support of the Catholic clergy of the Polish national liberation uprising. The complex of buildings of the monastery and church of St. Joseph have been transferred to the treasury.

To this day the building of the church belongs to the state. There is an archive of scientific and technical documentation and the archive of literature and art of Belarus.

Catholics Minsk, the Belarusian authorities are concerned about the statement that the building of the church of St. Joseph can be converted into a hotel complex. Believers look to the government, the city authorities with a request to return the believers of the shrine, but until the final fate of the temple has not been solved.