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Dimensions User Comment 2007-01-16 00:57: 2592×1944× (2041184 bytes) Skarg: Photo of the interior of the church at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in [[Conyers, Georgia]]. Photo taken by [[User:Skarg|Steve Karg]]
English: An image of the interior of the abbey of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. Great care and effort were taken to portray as closely as possible the true colors and light level perceived by a dark-adapted human eye.
The monastery at daybreak. The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was founded on March 21, 1944, by twenty 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.
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The building will be of stone and, including the courts, will cover an area of 300 square feet”. The orphanage was opened before the end of 1871 with the orphans under the care of the resident Sisters of Charity. [2] The monastery is surrounded by a 12 foot high boundary wall, seen here from Kirk Edge Road.
The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was established in 1609 by the Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity, which subsequently adopted the name Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit. [2] This brotherhood, consisting of several hundred members from both the artisan class and the aristocracy, had been active since 1585.
Monastery of Christ in the Desert, Abiquiú, New Mexico; Monastery of Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek, Hulbert, Oklahoma; Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Conyers, Georgia; Monks of Mary, Sprague, Washington; Mount Angel Abbey, Saint Benedict, Oregon; Mount Michael Abbey, suburban Omaha, Nebraska; Mount Saviour Monastery, Elmira, New York
The monastery was founded in the 1380s by Duchess Uliana of Tver, wife of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. Algirdas ordered the construction of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in this monastery. About 1392–1393, after Algirdas' death, Uliania took the vows of schema in her monastery. From the mid-17th century till 1839, the monastery was ...