Sentence examples for became a monastery from inspiring English sources

The complex became a monastery in 1983, after visitors wanted more rigor.

This religious house became a monastery under the patronage of the Bishop of Worcester.

He was buried in his palace in Constantinople, which lay near the Cistern of Aspar and which became a monastery named after him, now traditionally identified with the Kefeli Mosque.

A Franciscan monastery was built between 1699 and 1705, with a new wing being added between 1731 and 1733, which subsequently became a new monastery in 1761.

Throssel Hole has become a Buddhist monastery set in a quiet garden.

After its reconstruction, the Mezhyhirya Monastery became a regional center of the Zaporozhian Host, serving the host as a military monastery.

The monastery became a cell of the abbey at Tewkesbury (Gloucestershire, England) and was closed at the dissolution of the monasteries (1536 39), but its gatehouse and dovecote remain.

Æthelred became a monk at Bardney, a monastery which he had founded with his wife, and was buried there.

Westminster Abbey was a Benedictine monastery that became a cathedral after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but only for ten years.

The monastery became a stop on the lightly trodden foreign tourist trail.

He became a monk at the monastery of St. Denis, and Héloïse entered the convent at Argenteuil.