Pieramoha Cinema, Movie theater in Minsk, Belarus.
Pieramoha Cinema is a movie theater in Minsk with a symmetrical facade featuring columns, decorative moldings, and architectural elements typical of 1950s Soviet design. The building contains spacious interiors with grand architectural details that reflect the period when it was constructed.
The site held a 17th-century Benedictine convent with a 1633 church, closed in 1872. In 1929 Andrei Burov built the Food Workers' Club here, renamed after Stalin; partisans blew it up on 6 September 1943. Iosif Langbard reworked the reconstruction project in 1947–1948 with Mikhail Baklanaw, keeping the club's surviving walls; the cinema opened in 1950.
The cinema's name, Pieramoha (Victory), was given when it opened in 1950. In the entrance lobby, murals painted in 1990 by Raman Zaslonaw, Andrey Zadoryn, Vyachaslaw Lemachko and Vasil Baranaw were restored during the 2022–2024 reconstruction, which also recreated 1940s stucco from original drawings.
The cinema stands at 20 Internacyjanaĺnaja Street, on the site of the former Benedictine convent and the 1929 Food Workers' Club. It reopened in July 2024 after reconstruction begun in February 2022, now with five halls, two cinema bars and a conference room. Paving of a different colour in front of the building marks the wings of the old club.
During the 2022–2024 reconstruction, paving stones of a different colour were laid in front of the building to mark the lost wings of the 1929 Food Workers' Club, which once projected toward Internacyjanaĺnaja Street and formed an entrance courtyard. The club, designed by Andrei Burau, was blown up by underground fighters on 6 September 1943, and its surviving walls were reused for the cinema.
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