Holy Spirits Cathedral

One of the most expressive architectural dominants of today's Minsk in the central part of the city is considered to be the Holy Spirit Cathedral. The harmony of its exterior, preserved in the proportionality of the cathedral's proportions, the softness of the outline of its bell towers pointing upward, obviously contrasts with the rough, angular shapes of the buildings that are located near the temple.
The Holy Spirit Cathedral attracts attention, as it reminds us of the upper world, as if it were music that miraculously embodied itself in the building. At a time when much of the surrounding architecture sounds in dissonance with this sublime feeling, it suppresses our joyful mood, oppressing us with the menace of its volumes.
This is the first impression that arises in the soul when you get acquainted with the Minsk Cathedral, which rises steeply above Freedom Square.
Born to life by talented craftsmen whose names we do not know, the temple adorns the historical center of Minsk, being architecturally a two-towered, three-nave basilica made in the style of the Vilna (Belarusian) Baroque.