The building of the old monastery of the Minorites with a paradise courtyard and on all four sides with an open arcaded cloister rests on the west side of the inner wall of the city walls and on the south side of the church. On the east side of the corridor was the chapter hall, refectory and library. Next to the church is the Polish Gate.
The northern wing of the monastery was rebuilt in the second half of the 17th century. The monastery was also rebuilt in the 1930s, when the adjacent church was rebuilt.
On the ground floor of the monastery, there is the only fully preserved cloister in Slovakia since its inception. The Gothic interior has preserved the Madonna and murals from the 14th and 15th centuries. Today, there is a church grammar school in the building of the old Minorite monastery.
In the vicinity of the church at night you can occasionally hear the rustle of leather sandals of a veiled headless monk, whose spirit still guards the place where the old well once stood, important for Levočans. His body, separated from his head, was found during archeological finds in a former monastery.
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