The Orthodox Church of the Intercession is a monument of wooden vernacular architecture built as a Uniate (Greek-Catholic) church in the 18th century. In 1866 the church was repaired because at that time the roof was in poor condition. The last renovation took place in the 1920s. The Church of the Intercession functioned until the 1930s.
The church of Saints Simon and Helena, also known as the red church, was built between 1905 and 1910. In 1932 it was closed to worship by the Soviet authorities and donated to a Polish theatre company. Later it was converted into a film studio. The Germans returned the church to worship in 1941. After the Second World War, it was restored to become a film studio again, and in 1975 it became the House of Cinema. The church of Saint-Siméon-et-Sainte-Hélène was finally returned to Catholic worship in 1990.
The first mosque in Minsk was constructed between 1900 and 1902 to accommodate the local Muslim population. In the 1960s, the mosque was destroyed by Soviet authorities. In 2016 a replica of the original mosque was reconstructed.
The Salzman Synagogue was built in 1864 at the expense of the merchant Salzman for the poor Jews of Minsk in the suburb of Raków. During the Second World War, it was abandoned and was later rebuilt to house a sports club. Today, the two-storey brick building houses a chess centre.
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