Sentence examples for monastery it from inspiring English sources

Like a medieval monastery, it is walled-off and self-contained.

Modeled on a Greek monastery, it was set atop a hillside and reached by an aerial tram.

Set in an Orthodox monastery, it examines the friendship of two women who grew up together in an orphanage but have taken strikingly different paths as adults.

By the time we reached Rocamador, a rural hotel and restaurant in a 500-year-old former monastery, it was 11 p.m. and our stomachs were growling.

Part of the treasury of a cathedral or an important monastery, it was cobbled together from new and existing bindings, forming an early Medieval assemblage.

For even more affordable lodging, head to the hostel in the Troitse-Sergiyev Varnitskiy monastery: it offers dorm beds from £4.50 and private rooms from £10.

Because its art remains largely sacred, restricted to veneration within monasteries, it has remained almost unknown both in and outside Bhutan.

If greed or selfishness was associated with individual monks or monasteries, it was an aberration.

"If this were a war against monasteries, it would have happened earlier," said the commander, known by the nickname Leka.

Athos – or the Holy Mountain – has been occupied for centuries by a group of orthodox monasteries (it's where Prince Charles likes to spend a contemplative week or so each year) and is, I warn you, strictly off-limits for women (the closest glimpse any female will get is from a boat off the coast).

"In monasteries it is thought that women don't have the capability to development themselves spiritually," she said.