monastery
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The tiny village of Zvernec sits on the coast outside Vlore, known for its more than 700-year-old Byzantine-era monastery on the edge of the Narta Lagoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Like many Tibetan men, he served as a monk, spending 12 years at a southern India monastery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The monastery includes a prayer chamber carved into the mountainside, where the worshippers had gathered for the special prayer service.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Funerals have been held for some of the 14 people killed in a landslide that hit a mountain monastery hosting an overnight prayer session in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
We were standing in front of the old chapel of the monastery.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Government regulations bar anyone under 18 from participating in religious activities, starving the monasteries of young devotees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Greece will in return receive 48 objects pillaged by Bulgarian troops from churches and monasteries in northern Greece during World War I.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Thetford, England, population about 25,500, has been mostly quiet since King Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries kneecapped the local economy in 1540.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The idea resonated, reminding her of monasteries she’d once visited on a trip to France.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
Among the monasteries that took in foundlings, one was a flagellant order.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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