Sentence examples for stone monastery from inspiring English sources

Wandering the Nikole district, we rounded a corner to discover an old stone monastery and another perfect swimming spot.

THE PLACE David Gareji is a stone monastery in southeastern Georgia, on a long spine of stone that forms part of the border between Georgia and Azerbaijan.

It is thought that little work took place on the permanent stone monastery until the house was taken under the wing of Henry III, who became interested in the abbey in the mid-1240s and eventually assumed the role of patron in 1251.

Professor Joyce, a pioneer of the hypertext novel, said he envisioned the Media Cloisters as a gathering place for faculty members and students that would foster the kind of intellectual exchanges that took place in stone monasteries in earlier centuries.

With its wooden buildings and careworn trailers, St. Antony's can't compare with the immense history, artistry and old stone monasteries of Egypt.

Stone masonry monasteries were the hardest hit, suffering all the effects of a crippling accident in old age.

Old stone Orthodox monasteries, heroic poems, candlelit ceremonies, mighty warriors, silver crucifixes, cold steel, holy wars, noble death — Tijana the lover of Wordsworth and Shelley had fallen in love with these things, too.

YAROSLAVL, Russia — Just last week, Mayor Yevgeny R. Urlashov's political career seemed as bright as the generous summer light that drenches this ancient citadel of onion-domed churches and stone-walled monasteries.

"The tiles on the floor are 14th-century Spanish monastery stone, and we have English bricks that are 600 to 700 years old".

One thing the Cloisters is not, however, is an entire monastery brought stone by stone from Europe and reassembled on its sylvan perch in Fort Tryon Park.

The older stone and mud monasteries, some of which date back to the early 1700s, were badly affected.