Minsk. The Jesuit College.

     The building of the former Jesuit Collegium is located on Freedom Square in Minsk. The Collegium was part of the architectural complex of the Jesuit monastery, where there was a church of the Virgin Mary, a school building and outbuildings.

        The buildings were built in the late 17th and early 18th century in the Baroque style. The collegium's house was made of stone and had two floors. During the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was the Jesuits who provided the best education in Minsk. They taught for free and took in students of all Christian denominations.

      The Jesuits came to Minsk in the middle of the 17th century. Their first sponsor was Bishop Hieronymus Sangushko of Smolensk, who purchased a wooden chapel and a stone manor house on the Upper Market for the Jesuits. Until 1686, the Jesuits in Minsk had the status of a mission. Later, the status of the residence. Since 1714, the status of the collegium.

       The Jesuit school building was built in 1699, a two–story stone building. The Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary was consecrated next to the collegium in 1710. The architectural complex was built throughout the 18th century.

    During this period, the Jesuit Collegium taught metaphysics, logic, physics, rhetoric, poetry, theology, grammar and other sciences. The institution had a theater and a library.

        At the end of the 18th century, during the Russian Empire, the Governor's House began operating in the building. Then the places present and the city Council worked here. In Soviet times, in the early years of Soviet power, the building housed the Central Executive Committee of the BSSR and many prominent Belarusian national figures worked here, including Alexander Chervyakov and Tishka Gartny.

     The building now houses a music college.