Monastery Collection (#26)

Buddhist Monastery in India - high altitude
Buddhist Monastery at Ghum (Ghoom) in India - Darjeeling, West Bengal - altitude 7407 ft (2225.7 m) above sea level!

Trabzon, Turkey - Monastery of Soumela
Monasteries of Soumela and St. George at Trabzon on the Black Sea coast in north-eastern Turkey. The capital of Trabzon Province

Union Workhouse, Coventry, Warwickshire
The Union Quadrangle, part of the Coventry Union workhouse, Warwickshire. The workhouse was first established in around 1801 on the site of the former Whitefriars monastery

Cliffside Greek Monastery
Typical Greek Monastic complex, hugging the sheer wall of a cliff

Buddhist Head Monk - Xinjiang
Southern Chinese Buddhist Abbot in Zinjiang Province, China sitting in his Monastic Throne. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Buddhist Monastery Interior
Southern Chinese Buddhist Monks in Zinjiang Province, China sit in lines before the Abbot. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

El Escorial, Spain
A 17th century bird s-eye view of the palace/monastery of San Lorenzo de l Escorial, built by Felipe II as a monument symbolising the counter- reformation

Charterhouse School Room
The School Room at Charterhouse School at the original site in Newgate (the site of a Carthusian Monastery)

Louis Le Pieux Deposed
Growing dissatisfaction with Louis le Pieux leads to his deposition : he is packed off to live the remainder of his days in a monastery

The Charter House School
Charterhouse School was founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian Monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield

The two year old Holy Lama, Mongolia
An incarnation of the Great immortal white lama, the two year old Holy Lama worshipped as a divine being at the Usersky-Dazan monastery in Mongolia

Spain / Montserrat 19C
Montserrat: entrance to the monastery and hospice

Spain Montserrat
The monastery

Switzerland Einsiedeln
The Benedictine monastery, founded in the 9th century

Tibetan Monk 1798
A Tibetan Monk in traditional dress and wide-brimmed hat

Oliva, Danzig
The Cistercian monastery of Oliva, located on the gulf of Danzig, was founded in 1170 and survived thanks to the protection of the Teutonic Knights

Ipatjev, Kostroma
The Ipatjev monastery at Kostroma is a notable pilgrimage destination for orthodox Russians

Mount Athos, Greece
The monastery of Mount Athos, Greece, at one time housed more than six thousand monks, refugees from the wicked world beyond its strongly fortified walls

Chester Cathedral was originally a Benedictine monastery, only becoming a cathedral in 1536 on the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII

Iona Cathedral, off the south west coast of Mull, Scotland. In 563, St. Columba landed here from Ireland and established a monastery and a base for his evangelism

Doorway of the Monastery at Belem, Portugal
Illustration of the Doorway of the Convento dos Jeronymos Monastery, Belem, Portugal. This monastery was built on the site of a Seamans Home founded by Prince Henry the Navigator

Holyrood, Edinburgh
Founded as a monastery by David I in 1128, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, situated at the end of the Royal Mile, is the Queens (Elizabeth II s) official Scottish residence

St. Johns Gate, London
St. Johns Gate, Clerkenwell, London. A survival of the ancient Clerkenwell Priory, which was at one time the monastery of the Knights of the Order of St. John

England / Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, showing the Tower (the largest surviving Norman central tower in the world) of the Abbey, founded in the 11th century as a Benedictine monastery

Spain / Montserrat C1880
Montserrat: view of the monastery

Monks Playing Game
A group of monks from the Franciscan monastery of Gorheim, Germany, play a peculiar ball game

Italy / Assisi /s Francesco
Assisi: the Monastery of San Francesco Date: 1908

Monaincha Abbey / Arch
A fine hiberno-romanesque arch at Monaincha Abbey, 2.5km from Roscrea in County Tipperary. The 12th century Abbey is all that remains of the Monastery of Canice

Carlo V Abdicates
Carlo (Charles) V abdicates and retires to the monastery of San Jeronimo de Yuste

Pilgrims / Montserrat
The principal cloister of the monastery at Montserrat : ex-votos can be seen to the left, while other pilgrim gifts (including crocodiles !) hang from the ceiling

Myanmar Amarapura
The Buddhist monastery, near Mandalay

KAZAN - 2
The monastery

KAZAN - 3
The monastery of saint John (Ivan)

Scotland / Iona
The remains of the Nunnery at Iona, Scotland. Founded at the same time as the Monastery, it was built by St. Columba, who landed there in 563. Portions of the chapel are 13th century

St. Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Built upon the site of a 6th century monastery, it has been a place of pilgrimage and Christian worship for centuries

Russian Orthodox procession at Konevsky Monastery

Fragment of Sintrams Evangelium Longum
A fragment of Sintrams Evangelium Longum, a gospel book. It is one of the great treasures of the Monastery and Library of St Gall in Switzerland

England / Mount Grace
MOUNT GRACE formerly a Carthusian monastery

Cloister, Dubrovnik
One monk reads while another draws water from the well in the cloisters of the monastery of San Francesco at Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) Croatia

C12 Religious Costume
Ecclesiastical habits, a pilgrim at the door of a monastery

Russia / Archangel / Solovet
Archangel: Solovetzki monastery

Mussorgsky / Boris / Liebig1
Act One : outside the monastery of Novedevichy, the people implore Boris to accept the crown : he accepts

Mussorgsky / Boris / Set
Set design for the Prologue : the courtyard of the Nevodevichy monastery

Food for Monks
Food is brought to the monastery door - a deer, a swan, a basket of fish and lots of game

Troitsa Monastery
Priests on the porch steps of Troitsa monastery in Russia

Chilperic II
CHILPERIC II king of the Franks, a monk taken from a monastery and set up as a puppet king by Charles Martel, mayor of the palace

Rome / Panoramic View
A panoramic view of Rome, dating from between 1350 and 1450, and originating from the monastery at Mantua

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