In anticipation of "Slavonic Bazaar" Viciebsk believers of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Luke contributed to the improvement of the city on the Dvina. They spent Cleanup to update the foundation stone of the church building. Cleanup was completed a short worship in the open air, at the end of which all prayed together for Belarus, singing well-known hymn "Mahutny Boža" ("Mighty God").

Mortgage building stone of the future of the Evangelical Lutheran Center was set in a green area near the hotel "Vetraz" in 1999 and then never cleaned and was tinted. During this time he was abandoned, so the faithful willingly responded to the request of officials Pervomaisky district of Viciebsk administration to bring it into proper condition.

In 1999, a stone consecrated Archbishop ELKRAS (German: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Russland und anderen Staaten - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and Other States), Georg Kretschmar. Then Belarus Lutheran communities did not belong to any church structure, and it was assumed that when they finally merge, it will be included in the jurisdiction of ELKRAS - common German tradition of the Church of all the CIS countries.

However, when a year later, the country's first association of communities into a single church body has become a reality, the majority of the representatives of the Lutheran congregations in Belarus from different regions have decided otherwise and declared independence Constituent Synod of the Belarusian Evangelical Lutheran Church. By the way, this event was held in Viciebsk.