The Janka Kupala National Theatre building in Minsk was built in 1890 by Konstantin Vvedensky and Karol Kozłowski, and it opened on June 5, 1890. The modern theater company was established on September 14, 1920, in the Minsk Provincial Theatre building. It was renamed after the poet Janka Kupala in 1944.
The building also hosted important political gatherings. These included the First All-Belarusian Congress in December 1917 and the First All-Belarusian Congress of Soviets in February 1919, which approved Soviet Belarus's first constitution.
A renovation ran from 2010 to 2013. The article describes it as the oldest existing theater in Belarus, and it is included in the list of cultural heritage of Belarus.
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