Bernardine monastery in Sluck, Catholic monastery in Sluck, Belarus.

The Bernardine monastery in Sluck is a Catholic religious building displaying Baroque architectural features in its facades and decorative details. The complex shows a traditional layout with structured spaces and ornamental work typical of monastic buildings from this period.

Bernardine monks came to Sluck from Nesvizh in 1661, receiving land on the Sluch River opposite the old castle from Mozyr starosta Samuel Askerko with permission of Prince Boguslav Radziwill. A chapel was built that year; wooden monastery and church buildings followed in 1734. A brick church replaced the burnt wooden one in 1812, and after the 1830–1831 uprising the monastery was closed and used as a barracks.

The monastery is no longer active: the church was returned to Catholics in 1852, served until 1933 and was demolished in the early 1950s. The Bernardines were moved to Nesvizh after the 1830–1831 uprising and ceased activity in Belarus from 1860. In Sluck they bred the Sluck pear variety, called bernardinka, celebrated in a poem by Aleksei Rusetsky.

The monastery is located in Sluck and can be found at coordinates 53.028278, 27.558861. Local tourism information offices in town can provide details about visiting hours and how to access the site.

The Bernardine monks ran a large plot with a garden and vegetable garden on what is now Krestyansky Lane, opposite the Orthodox Nativity Church; this land is now built over behind the Molodyozhny Centre. There they likely developed the Slutsk bera pear, called bernardinka by locals in the 1820s–1840s, as recorded by Baron Staël, a former Slutsk mayor. The poet Alexey Rusetsky wrote a poem about the monk who bred the pear.