For the toric variety X associated to the Bruhat poset of Schubert varieties in a minuscule G/P , we describe the singular locus in terms of the faces of the associated polyhedral cone. We further show that the singular locus is pure of codimension 3 in X, and the generic singularities are of cone type.Let K denote the base field which we assume to be algebraically closed of arbitrary characteristic. Given a distributive lattice L, let X(L) denote the affine variety in A #L whose vanishing ideal is generated by the binomials X τ X ϕ − X τ ∨ϕ X τ ∧ϕ in the polynomial algebra K[X α , α ∈ L] (here, τ ∨ ϕ (respectively τ ∧ ϕ) denotes the join-the smallest element of L greater than both τ, ϕ (respectively the meet-the largest element of L smaller than both τ, ϕ)). These varieties were extensively studied by Hibi in [9] where Hibi proves that X(L) is a normal variety. On the other hand, Eisenbud and Sturmfels show in [5] that a binomial prime ideal is toric (here, "toric ideal" is in the sense of [14]). Thus one obtains that X(L) is a normal toric variety. We shall refer to such a X(L) as a Hibi toric variety.For L being the Bruhat poset of Schubert varieties in a minuscule G/P , it is shown in [7] that X(L) flatly deforms to G/P (the cone over G/P ), i.e., there exists a flat family over A 1 with