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Poland Monasteries
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The small village of Swieta Lipka is situated in the northern part of Poland, in the Warminsko-Mazurskie voivodship, about 70 km southeast of Olsztyn town. The Jesuit monastic complex of Swieta Lipka is considered to be one of the most beautiful Baroque religious buildings in Poland. |
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Hungary Monasteries
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The Dominican nunnery of Veszprém was founded by Bartholomew, the bishop of Veszprém in 1240, in the honour of Saint Catherine. The vestiges of the nunnery-church can be visited at the foot of the Vár Hill, but major part of the monastery building is situated under the nearby houses. |
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Macedonia Monasteries
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St. Nikola Shishovski Monastery is located in the northern part of Macedonia, about 20 km from Skopje, on top of the cliff above Lake Matka. There is no written evidence for the original building of the monastery but it was first mentioned in the 17th century. |
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Latvia Monasteries
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Located in the eastern part of Latvia, about 50 km northeast of Daugavpils, Aglona Basilica is most important Roman Catholic church in the country and Latvia’s main pilgrimage center. The most important celebration is the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 15 |
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Montenegro Monasteries
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Durdevi Stupovi Monastery is located in the eastern part of Montenegro, near the town of Berane. The monastery was constructed in the second half of the 12th century. It is the center of the Serb Orthodox Eparchy of Budimlje-Nikšić in Montenegro. |
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Moldova Monasteries
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Capriana Monastery is located in Moldova Republic, about 40km west of Chisinau. Capriana Monastery is one of the oldest monasteries in Moldova; it was originally built in first half of the 15th century. Capriana Monastery was founded by the ruler of Stefan the Great; and it was center of Moldova’s bishops for a long period. |
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Hungary Monasteries
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Pannonhalma monastery is the earliest founded Benedictine Abbey of Hungary that has been the arch-abbacy of all the Benedictine houses from the end of the Middle Ages. As part of the millennium celebrations, the monastic complex of Pannonhalma |
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Hungary Monasteries
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The church carved in rock in 1926 as imitation of the cave of Lourdes at the southern slope of Gellért Hill in Budapest, and the Pauline monastery built in 1934 are important stages in the twentieth-century reorganisation movement of the order. The Rock Chapel consists of two parts; one of them is named after Saint Iván a hermit who had once lived in the natural upper cave, while the lower part is an artificially made system of caves. |
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Slovakia Monasteries
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During the first-third of the 15th century, the Gothic monastery was strengthened and converted into a fortified monastery; during the next two-hundred years it underwent several further alterations. It owes its present aspect to its 18th century reconstruction, which was based on the plans of A.Pilgram, a Viennese architect. |
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Hungary Monasteries
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The Benedictine abbey of Tihany is located in the Western part of Hungary on the peninsula in Lake Balaton. The Benedictine abbey of Tihany was founded in 1055 by András I. in honour of the Virgin Mary and the bishop Saint Ányos. The royal founder of the abbey found his final place of rest in the crypt of the abbey in 1060, his burial-stone has been preserved intact. The foundation charter of the abbey, safeguarded in the archive of the arch-abbacy of Pannonhalma. |
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