- A
convent is an
enclosed community of monks, nuns,
friars or
religious sisters. Alternatively,
convent means the
building used by the community. The term...
- The Iona
Nunnery was an
Augustinian convent of nuns
located on the
island of Iona in the
Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was
established sometime after...
- Chi Lin
Nunnery (Chinese: 志蓮淨苑; Jyutping: zi3 lin4 zing6 jyun2;
Cantonese Yale: Jilìhn
Jihng Yún) is a
large Buddhist temple complex located in Diamond...
-
Nunnery is an
estate outside of
Douglas on the Isle of Man,
named after a
religious foundation on the site, at grid
reference SC372754. The
Nunnery is...
- ****umption that "
nunnery" was used that way in slang, or that
Hamlet intended such a meaning. The
context of the
scene suggests that a
nunnery would not be...
- the
medieval Benedictine Nunnery of St
George can
still be seen on this site. The BTO also runs its only bird reserve,
Nunnery Lakes Reserve, on this site...
- The Benedictines,
officially the
Order of
Saint Benedict (Latin: Ordo
Sancti Benedicti,
abbreviated as O.S.B. or OSB), are a
mainly contemplative monastic...
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Reading Nunnery was a
nunnery in Berkshire,
England that
existed during the Anglo-Saxon period. It was
established in 979. The site is now
occupied by...
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Pokrovsky Nunnery (Ukrainian: Покровський жіночий монастир, romanized: Pokrovskyi
zhinochyi monastyr) in Kyiv, Ukraine,
known in full as the
Nunnery of the...
-
Ngagyur Nyingma Nunnery (Tibetan: མཚོ་རྒྱལ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།, Wylie: Mtsho-rgyal-shad-sgrub-dar-rgyas-ling) is a
Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in Bylakuppe...
