The St. Joseph's Church in Minsk was once a prosperous part of the Bernardine monastery, which occupied an entire block. Even the streets bounding this block was called Big and Small Bernardine.

Bernardine monks arrived in Minsk at the invitation Krasnoselskaya warden Andrew Kosovskogo and his brother Ian in the middle of the XVII century. The brothers built for the monks their first wooden cells, and the first wooden Church in 1630.

Over the next century Bernardine complex and the Church of Saint Joseph repeatedly burned and rebuilt, gradually acquiring the features of the architectural style of the Baroque.

The present form of the former Church of St. Joseph is a crazy three-nave Basilica with a higher Central nave. The Central part of the facade is distinguished high pilasters with capitals In the lateral parts of the facade have been preserved niches, in which were the statues of the saints.

Once the Church of Saint Joseph was one of the most beautiful churches of the capital and the symbol of the city, along with city hall and market stalls. Inside it was decorated with frescoes, the rich decor, the majestic altar with many sculptures. In 1864, the Bernardine monastery in Minsk was abolished for the support of the Catholic clergy of the Polish national liberation uprising. The complex of buildings of the monastery and Church of St. Joseph were transferred to the Treasury.

To this day, the Church building belongs to the state. It is an archive of scientific-technical documentation and archive of literature and art of Belarus.

Catholics Minsk concerned by the statement of the Belarusian authorities that the building of St. Joseph's Church can be transformed into a hotel complex. Believers turn to the government and the local authorities with requests to return to the faithful their sanctuary, but until finally the fate of the temple is not resolved.