Kalvaryja - the oldest preserved cemetery of Minsk. The exact date of the base could not be established. By surviving the "Book of the Dead", which, starting from the XVIII century, was added the names of the people buried here, he was more than 170 years old, but archaeologists believe that the cemetery about 600 years. The total area of ​​about 14 hectares of the cemetery, the approximate number of graves - more than 30 thousand people.

Calvary (lat. Calvaria) - the name of the places of special veneration of the Holy Cross at the Catholic symbol of Calvary. It's not just a cemetery. Here organize processions in major religious festivals, portraying religious mysteries of the Passion of Christ and the Crucifixion on Golgotha. Calvary was made to build on the hill and build on top of his church as a symbol of Calvary.

In 1645, Theodore Vankovich given land near the road leading to cancer, Carmelite Church for the construction of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The monks built a wooden church, consecrated the ground and bury it in only the most worthy, rich and noble dead. Here are buried representatives of noble families of the Belarusian and Polish gentry: Witkiewicz, Gaydukevich, Kobylinsky, Matusevich, Moniuszko, Nesluhovskie, Petrashkevich, Pyachulisy, Sienkiewicz, Staniszewski, Chechot, Shablovsky, Yurevich, Eysmont and others. Here lies the Belarusian artist Valenty Vankovich, Belarusian poet Yanka Lucina, the leader of the national liberation movement of Vaclav Ivanovo family Voynilovich, gave the famous Minsk Red Church. Scientists say that Kalvaryja buried even the names of the representatives of the Radziwill family.

In 1800 the Church of the Holy Cross joined the Franciscans, who were buried in the cemetery of Minsk residents of the Catholic religion. In 1839, instead of the dilapidated wooden church was built a stone Calvary Church. This church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, built in the Gothic Revival style, was preserved until today. He is one of the oldest neo-Gothic church in Minsk.

At the foot of Calvary Hill in 1830, it was built Brama (gate). Brahma and path leading up the hill to the church, symbolizing Calvary, embodies the idea of ​​salvation.

In 1967 the cemetery was granted the status of historical and cultural heritage of the city of Minsk. In 2001 the cemetery was granted the status of historical and cultural value of the first category and an object of international importance.

It did not go to the cemetery and without urban legends. Said that once there was a buried Panenka, who took over the dead, while she was in a lethargic sleep. Later imaginary walled deceased woke up in the crypt, and died in terrible agony. Since then, she wanders between moss-covered graves.