Tomasz Pajzderski and Władysław Marconi designed the church, financed by the landowner Edward Woyniłłowicz and named in memory of his two deceased children, Szymon and Helena. The cornerstone was laid in 1905, and it was consecrated on September 20, 1910 and opened on December 21, 1910. The article calls the style Neo-Romanesque.
The walls are clay brick, with bricks from Częstochowa and roof tiles from Włocławek. It is known as the Red Church and stands on Independence Square in Minsk. The article gives no tower height or other dimensions.
Soviet authorities closed it in 1932 and later used it as a theater and a cinema, and it returned to church use under the German occupation in 1941. It went back to the Roman Catholic Church in 1990 after two hunger strikes, and the interior was restored. A fire in September 2022 damaged part of it, and authorities then banned the parish from using it.
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