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4Churches and chapels

Holy Spirit Cathedral

Date: 1642
Style: baroque architecture, Belarusian Baroque
Protection: Cultural heritage of Belarus
Official website: www.katedra.by
Hours and prices: check the official website, they change with the season
On these routes: Upper Town and the Opera

The Holy Spirit Cathedral or the Holy Ghost Cathedral is a cathedral in Minsk, Belarus. Consecrated in honour of the Holy Spirit, it the mother church of the Belarusian Orthodox Church.

It was built between 1633 and 1642 as a part Bernardine monastery during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in a place of former male Orthodox monasteries. The site became Orthodox again in 1860. The cathedral is listed as a Belarusian Cultural heritage object and is considered one of the main landmarks in Minsk Upper city.

Sources

Text: introduction of the Wikipedia article Holy Spirit Cathedral, Minsk, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence (authors: article history). Facts: Wikidata (CC0). Coordinates: Wikidata, map background © OpenStreetMap contributors.