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Conyers, Georgia. / 33.66639°N 84.00750°W / 33.66639; -84.00750. Conyers is an Atlanta suburb, the county seat of and only city in Rockdale County, Georgia, United States. [4] The city is 24 miles (38.6 km) east of downtown Atlanta and is a part of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 15,195.
History 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.
The Marian Apparitions at Conyers, in the U.S. state of Georgia, are a series of reported visions of the Virgin Mary experienced by Nancy Fowler. [1] These apparitions gained significant attention from both the Roman Catholic community and the general public from the late 1980s through the 1990s. [2]
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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
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.
Rockdale County is a county located in the North Central portion in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,570 up from 85,215 in 2010. [1] [2] The county seat is Conyers. [3] Rockdale County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Conyers Commercial Historic District is a 6 acres (2.4 ha) in Conyers, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1] The district is roughly bounded by N. Main St., Warehouse St., GA RR, and Center St. It included 39 contributing buildings, a contributing structure and a contributing object.