Uniate Basilian monastery complex consists of two monastic body - male and female, extant, and the Church of the Holy Spirit. Basilian monastery was founded in the Upper market in Minsk in 1616 on the site of a wooden Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit of the XVI century. And in 1641, Metropolitan Anthony Selyava founded a convent. The convent is connected to the church porch.

  Uniate Church of the Holy Spirit was founded in 1636 - construction was carried out in 2000 on the donation of some PLN wealthy citizen of Polotsk. The building was unique, it combines the features of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles of architecture. The main artistic value Svyatoduhovsky church were frescoes on the facade alcoves depicting saints. Altars decorated with stone and wood figures of the Apostles. Probably to 1654 it was completed the construction of monasteries, because during the 1654-1667 war with Russia's monasteries have been used for defensive purposes as a fortress. In 1795, following the accession of Belarus to the Russian Empire, the monasteries were closed, and the church from 1799, she became an Orthodox Peter and Paul cathedral, becoming a monument of European importance in the mediocre sample pseudo-Russian style. In 1936, by order of the Soviet authorities the church was blown up.

  For the first time in 1970 for the restoration of the church conceived with . Baglasov, under the leadership of a group of architects who, after analyzing the available archival materials, made the reconstruction of the main facade of the church .  Future plans for the revival of the Upper Town differed on the issue of restoration of the church .  Now there is real hope that the temple of the Holy Spirit will be recreated in its original form .  The monastery from 1799 .  the residence of the archbishop of Minsk, and then are placed men's gymnasium .  Her famous disciples were once composer Stanisław Moniuszko, the founder of the Polish and Belarusian professional Opera, Tomasz Zan, a close friend of Adam Mickiewicz, Evstah Tyszkiewicz, the founder of the Belarusian and Lithuanian archeology and Belarusian writers Ivan Nesluhovsky Anton Levitsky .  After a fire in 1835, the complex of monasteries, with the exception of the women's, finally losing its original appearance - male body rebuilt in the classical style and offer him the government offices .  "Men of the" return of the complex former appearance has not yet scheduled .  Female body renovated .

  The building of the male body "adjacent" Moniuszko house, built in 1797 and owned by famous Polish race Monyushek. The most famous member of the genus is the composer Stanisław Moniuszko. He was born in 1819 on the estate not far from Minsk to whiten, I spent some time in Warsaw, and since 1830 his family moved to Minsk, where Stanislav had to continue their education at the school, located in the adjacent building of the former Uniate monastery. The house is arranged Moniuszko musical and poetic evenings, a lot of musicians, actors and artists. Who is building a memorial plaque. On the ground floor is located restaurant "Byblos".