Minsk. The Cathedral Mosque.

The first mosque in Minsk was made of wood and appeared at the turn of the 16th and 18th centuries in Tatarskaya Sloboda, on the territory where Pobediteley Avenue is now located. In 1900, the authorities approved the design of a stone Mohammedan temple, which was erected in 1901-1902. The 'Minsk Listok' newspaper described the building as "beautiful, built in the Byzantine style," noting its 32-meter minaret as one of the best structures in the city.

However, in the 1930s, the mosque was closed, and the food base of the Belarusian office "Deli" was placed in its building. In the late 1940s, the building was transferred to the training center of the Voluntary Society for the Assistance of the Fleet (DOSFLOT), and in 1962, during the construction of the restaurant of the Jubilee Hotel, the mosque was blown up and a fountain was built in its place.

The revival of the Mohammedan temple took place on a new site located one and a half kilometers northwest of the former site, on the territory where the Muslim cemetery was located until the mid-1970s. The construction of the new mosque according to the updated drawings was delayed due to lack of funds, but Turkey helped complete the work, whose president even visited Minsk for the opening of the Cathedral Mosque, which took place in November 2016.

In 2019, the Museum of Islam was opened in the Cathedral Mosque, which includes artifacts collected both in Belarus and abroad, telling about the history of Islam in the Belarusian lands. The basement of the building houses a museum dedicated to the 600-year-old life of Muslims in Belarus, as well as an assembly hall and ablution rooms.

The mosque's interior is lined with marble and granite, and the floor is covered with natural wool carpets. A 37-meter-high minaret has been built against the outer wall, from which the muezzin (assistant to the imam) calls the faithful to prayer.