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Some monasteries held a scriptorium where monks would write or copy books. The efficiency of Benedict's cenobitic Rule in addition to the stability of the monasteries made them very productive. The monasteries were the central storehouses and producers of knowledge. Vikings started attacking Irish monasteries famous for learning in 793.
Lluc Sanctuary, Majorca; Monasterio de Piedra, Zaragoza Province; Nuestra Señora de Rueda Monastery, Zaragoza Province; San Salvador of Leyre Abbey, Navarre; Santa María de El Paular Monastery, Madrid Province
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.
A monastery is a community of religious monastics and the building or complex of buildings where they live and work. The technical definition of a monastery differs somewhat from its common usage; in Christianity, a monastery is a community of monastics, chiefly of the cloistered orders. A monastery for female monastics may be called a nunnery.
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.
Saint Catherine's Monastery (Arabic: دير القدّيسة كاترين Dayr al-Qiddīsa Katrīn; Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
Beit Jimal Monastery – the traditional burial site of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr, St Nicodemus, and – only to Christians – that of Rabban Gamliel. Caesarea Maritima; Caesarea Philippi; Cana in Galilee; Deir Rafat Monastery - the Catholic Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Palestine and of the Holy Land (Notre-Dame de Palestine) in ...
Christian monasteries in the Czech Republic (2 C, 2 P) D. Christian monasteries in Denmark (7 C, 7 P) Christian monasteries in the Dominican Republic (1 C) E.