Completed 1825 Opened 1825 | Architect Pishchala | |
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Alternative names Pischalauski Castle
Piszczalauski castle Location Valadarskaha Street
Minsk, Belarus Address vulica Valadarskaha 2, Minsk, Belarus Similar Cathedral of Saint Virgin Mary, Holy Spirit Church, Church of Saints Simon an, Church of Holy Trinity - Mi, Minsk Town Hall | ||
Pishchalauski Castle (Belarusian: Пішчалаўскі замак), also spelled Pischalauski Castle, is a castle in Minsk, Belarus. The castle is also sometimes called the Belarusian Bastille. It is a registered state architectural monument.
The castle was built in 1825. It formerly served as a prison. The architect was named Pishchala. The castle was the site of the imprisonment of Belarusian writer Yakub Kolas from 1908 to 1911.
In 2008 the castle was in use as a pre-trial detention center:
Pishchalauski Сastle in Valadarski Street in Minsk, where a pre-trial detention center is situated, is crumbling. One of these days a part of the building where among other offenders political prisoners are kept, has collapsed.
A portion of one the castle's four towers collapsed in April 2008.