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Double monastery: Igumanija Evpraksija and Igumen Gavrilo. [18] St. Xenia Serbian Orthodox Skete, Lake Wildwood, California. Administrator Rev. Mother Abbess Dorothea. Sister monastery of St. Herman of Alaska Monastery. St. Nilus Island Skete, Ouzinkie, Alaska. Administrator: Rev. Mother Abbess Nina. Associated with St. Herman of Alaska ...
Community of Jesus, a Benedictine monastery located in Orleans. Glastonbury Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Hingham. Mount Saint Mary's Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery in Wrentham. Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastery in Cambridge. St. Benedict Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Harvard.
List of abbeys and priories is a link list for any abbey or priory. As of 2016 [update] , the Catholic Church has 3,600 abbeys and monasteries worldwide. [ 1 ]
Nuns (Trappist) 1962 Whitethorn, California: Founded from the Cistercian monastery of Nazareth in Belgium. Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey: Nuns (Trappist) 1964 Dubuque, Iowa: Daughter-house of Mt. St. Mary Abbey in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Santa Rita Abbey: Nuns (Trappist) 1972 Sonoita, Arizona: Our Lady of the Angels Monastery: Nuns (Trappist)
A German immigrant, Gier had designed St. Mary's Church in Mount Angel, and may have become known to the nuns during their time in Oregon. [2] Construction began in 1919 and was completed in 1924. Given the labor shortage in the area following World War I, some of the resident nuns helped quarry and transport the stone to the building site. [2]
Ganden Monastery, Tibet. Lists of monasteries cover monasteries, buildings or complexes of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). The lists are organized by country or territory, by denomination, by order and by form.
This is a list of Carthusian monasteries, or charterhouses, containing both extant and dissolved monasteries of the Carthusians (also known as the Order of Saint Bruno) for monks and nuns, arranged by location under their present countries. Also listed are ancillary establishments (distilleries, printing houses) and the "houses of refuge" used ...
It is open to visitors who want to learn about community life in a Tibetan Buddhist monastic setting. The name Sravasti Abbey was chosen by the 14th Dalai Lama . Thubten Chodron had suggested the name as Sravasti was the place in India where the Buddha spent 25 rains retreat ( varsa in Sanskrit and yarne in Tibetan), and communities of both ...