The building where 23 July 1919 took place the famous Erzurum Congress, is located in the homonymous square. This building in 1925, has undergone a fire, after which all the wooden parts were destroyed. Later the building was restored and renovated and handed over to the Lyceum of Arts. Room and two adjoining rooms, which are on the second floor of the building, the main exhibition room of the Museum of Erzurum Congress.

Congress in Erzurum has collected sixty-two delegates, and it was held in the elementary school, while still representing a one-story building. Worked in Congress for fourteen days as constituent Assembly and graduated on 7 August 1919. It was signed an agreement on ceasefire in Montrose. In those years, Erzurum was the most advanced city in which there was mass awareness and understanding of the necessity of resistance. This Congress is an important starting point in the history of the Turkish state. On it were laid the first foundations of the Liberation War, and adopted resolutions become the cornerstones of the principles of the national struggle.

In the history of Turkey, thus, this building plays a special role. Today at the Museum of the Congress assigned the status of a private Museum, it offers visitors photos of members of Congress, their biographies, and can also submit lists and the order of speeches, and all extant documents.

The building has two floors. There is also a ground floor. If you look from the facade on the building, it may be noted that it was built with the finest account of symmetry. It has, besides the main entrance, two more.

At the entrance, right at the doorstep, the statue of Ataturk, and under the walls are chairs, hanging on the walls a map of the area, which indicated delegations present from all localities. Two more rooms are located on both sides of the living room and furnishings of the time.