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Ennistimon Monastery (Irish: Mainistir Inis Díomáin) Pre-existing parish church/chapel at the site, built after 1812. Monastery and school founded in 1824 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. Residence at the site completed by May 1827. Later buildings include a primary school (1931) and nearby secondary school(1970). Ennistymon; Omos ...
Location Details Website Tarrawarra Abbey Trappist 1954 Victoria, Australia: Founded from Ireland. Since 1998 Tarrawarra has had a daughter house in Kerala, India: Kurisumala Ashram. Southern Star Abbey: Trappist 1954 Kopua, New Zealand: The Abbey is situated on a dairy farm between Dannevirke and Takapau, Central Hawke's Bay.
Clontuskert was dissolved in 1562 and the land passed to the Burkes, although some monks remained until some time after 1637. [6] [7] [8] The east gable wall collapsed in 1918, but was rebuilt in 1972. [9] Excavation took place in 1970–72. [citation needed]
The monastery at daybreak. The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was founded on March 21, 1944, by 20 monks from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The Archdiocese of Atlanta and silent film star Colleen Moore donated 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) of land, and the first monks lived in a barn while they built (by themselves) what would become known as the "pine board" monastery.
Vindobonae. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Stalley, Roger A. (1987). The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland: An Account of the History, Art and Architecture of the White Monks in Ireland from 1142-1540. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-03737-1.
Georgian Orthodox monasteries (63 P) Pages in category "Christian monasteries in Georgia (country)" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Location Year listed UNESCO criteria Description Alaverdi Cathedral: Kakheti: 2007 iv, vi (cultural) The cathedral was built in the first half of the 11th century on the site of a monastery dating to the 6th century. With a height of 50 metres (160 ft), it is the tallest cathedral in Georgia, and has a very spacious interior.
In the time of Charlemagne (r. 768–814 ) the requirements of a separate monastic community within an extended and scattered manorial estate led to the development of a "monastery within a monastery" in the form of the locked cloister, an architectural solution allowing the monks to perform their sacred tasks apart from the distractions of ...