In the town of Novogrudok Dominican fathers invited the Lithuanian Governor Krzysztof Hatkevich in the early seventeenth century. The Dominican brethren preachers, who carried not only the light of faith, but also of education, knowledge, science. Dominican monasteries and schools were actually scientific and religious centres in European cities.

The Governor was built for the Dominicans in 1624 in the heart of the city, the wooden Church of St. Jacek (canonized by the Catholic Church, the Polish Dominican missionary). After 100 years in place of a dilapidated wooden Church was built a new Church of stone in Baroque style. In 1751 the Church was damaged by a massive fire. To restore it was only in 1805. Bishop Valentine Valchetskaya consecrated in honor of St. Michael the Archangel – the patron Saint and protector of Novogrudok.

Next to the Church built a monastery (a Catholic monastery), which was organized by the Dominican school. In the period from 1807 to 1815 in this school, he studied the famous Belarusian writer Adam Mickiewicz.

In 1832, after the uprising was closed Dominican school, and in 1858 was closed and the convent of the Dominicans were expelled from the country.

In 1858 the Church was produced by large-scale reconstruction, after which it acquired the features of late classicism. In 1922, with the arrival in town of the Polish authorities, the Church was converted into a Cathedral, which worked until 1948, when the Soviet authorities closed the temple and used it as a granary.

In 1976, the Church suffered a serious fire, but another 10 years, nobody was going to repair. In 1986 it was renovated, and in 1993 the Church was returned to the parishioners.