monastery

Example Sentences

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Visitors are drawn to the scattering of monasteries perched on the edge of huge rocks above.

From BBC

Woolf Women is a film documentary about five female downhill skateboarders who embark on a white-knuckle adventure across Europe to an ancient monastery perched high in the Pontic Mountains in Turkey.

From BBC

The total weirdness of this place at a Benedictine monastery is a real kick.

From Seattle Times

And a legal battle is raging to evict the church from its historic monastery headquarters in Kyiv, one of the holiest sites in the Orthodox Church.

From Reuters

The official added that the monastery was attacked in 1917 by “marauding Bulgarian guerilla forces” who sacked its library.

From New York Times