Church of St. Simon and Helena is a Catholic parish church in the Neo-Romanesque style in Minsk.

Church of St. Simon and Helena (also known as the Red Church) is a Catholic parish church in the Neo-Romanesque style in Minsk, built in 1905–1910 with the money of  Edvard Vajnilovič (1847–1928), the well-known economics and political leader of Belarus, vice-chairman (from 1907 chairman) of the Minsk Society of Agriculture, in memory of his prematurely died children — Simon and Helena Vajnilovič. Edvard Vajnilovič decided to build a church in the Romanesque style, as he noted in his memoirs, because in the heyday of the Romanesque style in Europe, Christianity was not yet divided into Catholic and Orthodox. Red Church is a basilica with original composition and powerful transept. The church gives the impression of monumentality and harmony, sublime powerful, harsh and austere beauty.

Publication date: 26.06.2017.

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