Complex Uniate Basilian monasteries were two monastic buildings – male and female, preserved to our days, and the Church of the Holy spirit. The Basilian monastery was founded on the territory of the Upper town of Minsk in 1616 on the site of a wooden Orthodox Church of the Holy spirit of the sixteenth century, and in 1641 Metropolitan Anthony Seljava founded a women's monastery. The convent connected with the Church by a covered gallery.

The Uniate Church of the Holy spirit was founded in 1636 - the construction was a donation to 2000 PLN a certain wealthy citizen of Polotsk. The building was unique, it combines features of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles of architecture. The main artistic value of the Holy spirit of the Church was frescoed facade niches depicting saints. The altars were decorated with stone and wooden figures of the apostles. Likely to 1654 and the construction of monasteries was completed, because during the war with Russia 1654-1667, the monasteries had already been used for defensive purposes as a fortress. In 1795, after the accession of Belarus to the Russian Empire, the monasteries were closed and the Church from 1799 became Orthodox Peter and Paul Cathedral, turning from the monument of European importance in mediocre sample pseudo-Russian style. In 1936 by order of the Soviet authorities, the Church was blown up.

For the first time in 1970, the year of the restoration of the temple was conceived With.Baglasov, under whose leadership the group of architects, after analyzing the available archival materials, has made the reconstruction of the main facade of the temple. Further plans for the revival of the Upper town varied in the restoration of the Church. Now there is real hope that the temple of the Holy spirit will be recreated in its original form. In the monastery from 1799 g. the residence of the Archbishop of Minsk, and then there is men's gymnasium. Its famous students were the composer Stanislaw Moniuszko, the founder of the Polish and Belarusian Opera, Tomasz Zan, a close friend of Adam Mickiewicz, Estah Tyszkiewicz, the founder of the Belarusian and Lithuanian archaeology, and Belarusian writers Ivan Niesluchowski and Anton Levitsky. After the fire in 1835 complex of monasteries, except for the female, eventually loses its original character - a male body transformed into a classical style and comes in it offices. "Male part" of the complex to return to the former view does not yet scheduled. The female body is restored.

To the building the male body "adjacent" house Moniuszko, built in 1797 and owned by the famous Polish the genus Manushak. The most known representative of the genus is the composer Stanislaw Moniuszko. He was born in 1819 in the estate not far from Minsk in Ubele, spent some time in Warsaw, and from 1830 his family moved to Minsk, where Stanislav had to continue training in the gymnasium, located in the neighbouring building of the former Uniate monastery. In the house Moniuszko arranged music and poetry evenings, hosted many musicians, actors and artists. Now on the building there is a memorial plaque. On the ground floor is located the restaurant "Byblos".