About The Church of Saints Simon and Helena in Minsk, Belarus:
The Church of Saints Simon and Helena, also known as the Red Church, is the most famous Catholic church in Minska. This neo-Romanesque church was designed by Polish architects Tomasz Pajzderski and Władysław Marconi and built 1633-1642 as the main church for a Catholic Bernardine Convent.
The Church of Saints Simon and Helena is a five-nave, three-tower basilica of voluminous and spatial asymmetrical composition with a grand transept. The transept edges are designed in the same way as the main facade – with a large rose window under a triangular pediment. Originally it had three apses at the end of each nave, but they were combined into one central semi-cylindrical apse after rebuilding during the Soviet period. A 50-meter rectangular four-tiered tower in the south-eastern part is the core of the architectural composition. It’s unusual that the two small hipped church towers were placed not on the main facade, but on the altar sides.
The sculptures were made by Zigmund Otto, he is also the author of the ambo, fences, and bronze details. Vaults and walls paintings, stained-glass windows are designed by the artist Francisk Bruzdovich.
Traveling to the Church of Saints Simon and Helena in Minsk, Belarus:
Address: Ulitsa Sovetskaya 15, Minsk, Minskaja voblasć, Belarus
Phone: +375 17 200-44-15