[1] The monastery complex occupied a plot in the High Market [pl] area covering over 1 hectare (part of the block where the Palace of the Republic stands today).

The buildings belonging to the Minsk Dominicans included a brick church and monastery, as well as wooden outbuildings: two wings, a stable, a granary (świran), a well, and others.

In 1604, returning from the war, the szlachta imposed a "hoof" tax (from horses) to complete the construction of the temple and the monastery.

In 1615, Peter Tyszkiewicz, Count of Lahoysk and Berdychiv, the judicial starosta and voivode of Minsk, donated to the Dominican fathers a plot of land for perpetual ownership, where the construction of the stone church and monastery began.

[6] The monastery complex was located near the southern line of the city's fortifications – an earthen rampart with a moat and bastions.

At the end of the 18th century, the last renovation of the church took place, as evidenced by the contract discovered by Euzebiusz Łopaciński in the 1930s, drawn up in 1781 between the superior of the Minsk Dominicans, Benedykt Rybczyński, and the master of the masons' guild, Andrzej Makarewicz.

As a result of the work carried out at that time, the church received an unusual "ensemble" composition – two side plans, stretched in space.

In 1945, the Byelorussian SSR received reparations from Germany for the renovation of buildings, and preliminary conservation work was carried out in the church in the late 1940s.

On 8 December 1640, Piotr Wołk bequeathed to the monks in his will his estate, Wołkowszczyzna (also known as Rumnickie),[4] located 5 versts (approximately 5.4 km) from Minsk.

The estate's area was 3 voloks, 25 morgens, 208 rods (approximately 62.75 hectares), with a recorded number of 30 men in the inspection data.

The central part of the facade featured an unconventional architectural solution, typical of Eastern Baroque: the axial symmetry was defined not by openings, but by the space between them.

The tall body of the church on the facade was topped by a multi-storey, ornamented gable adorned with statues, strongly decorated with bands of cornices, bossaged pilasters, sculpted surrounds of arched window openings, and side volutes, etc.

It is a beautiful and impressive piece of architecture, maintained in the French style, with a lofty pediment topped with a turret, with a vault, set on cellars.

This building rises on pilasters crowned with arcades; these separate the nave from the chapels, which end in domes, slightly raised above the roofline.

[11]The interior of the temple was adorned with frescoes and Baroque stucco altars with rocaille – one main and 12 side ones by 6 inter-nave posts.

On its sides were two bell towers with original crowns in the shape of four mighty volutes arranged diagonally, topped with Baroque ridge turrets.

It joined the chancel and the end of the church's side nave at a right angle, merging with them into one monumental and compact mass.

Church silver, liturgical vestments, altar furnishings, decorations, and heraldic flags were purchased with money from alms.