Sentence examples for monastery built from inspiring English sources

L'Ordre des Chartreux is a monastery built in those mountains.

We finally made it to the monastery, built in the 16th century, with its massive walls and towers.

Its name (Arabic for "northern monastery") refers to a monastery built there in the 7th century ce.

The Tsz Shan monastery, built in Tang dynasty style, covers a vast 500,000 sq ft and cost £193m.

Southeast of the city is the Gračanica (Gracanicë) Monastery, built c. 1313 21 under the Serbian king Stefan Uroš II Milutin.

But this dispute has complicated efforts by the Karmapa to claim the monastery built by his predecessor in the Indian border region of Sikkim.

Along the 55-mile journey you can visit villages that are completely divorced from modern life and explore Buddhist monasteries built into cliff walls.

But a vast area of highlands and placid villages, where Tibetan life usually centers on temples and monasteries built of wood and earth, remains a battle zone.

Mr. Hawk photographed Buddhist monasteries built impossibly at the edges of towering cliffs, secret religious ceremonies, the King's birthday festival and the day-to-day lives of the people.

He was succeeded by his three sons, Olaf IV (1103 15), Eystein I (1103 22), and Sigurd I Magnusson (1103 30), who ruled jointly and imposed tithes, founded the first Norwegian monasteries, built cathedrals, established the bishopric at Stavanger, and incorporated the clergy of the Scottish isles into the church of Norway.

For the next nine years Wilfrid discharged his episcopal duties, founded monasteries, built churches, and improved the liturgy.