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List Of Monasteries In Australia
The following is an incomplete list of Monastic houses in Australia. Catholic Orders in Australia and New Zealand Male Religious Orders * Tarrawarra Abbey, Victoria, Australia. Trappist monastery founded from Ireland in 1954. Since 1998 Tarrawarra has had a daughter house in Kerala, India: Kurisumala Ashram. Se * New Norcia, Western Australia#Abbey, Benedictine Abbey, New Norcia, Western Australia * Monastery of Saint Benedict, Arcadia, New South Wales. Se* Southern Star Abbey, New Zealand. Southern Star is a Trappist monastery. * Blessed Sacrament Fathers in Sydney and Melbourne. Se * Notre Dame Priory. A traditional Benedictine monastery established in 2017 in Colebrook, Tasmania, Australia. *Pauline Fathers. Marian Valley, Queensland and Penrose Park, New South Wales. *Saint Charbel's Monastery, Antonin Maronite Order. Coburg, Victoria *Saint Charbel's Monastery, Lebanese Maronite Order''.'' Punchbowl New South Wales *Saint John the Beloved's Monastery, Lebanese Maronite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds. A monastery complex typically comprises a number of buildings which include a church, dormitory, cloister, refectory, library, balneary and infirmary, and outlying granges. Depending on the location, the monastic order and the occupation of its inhabitants, the complex may also include a wide range of buildings that facilitate self-sufficiency and service to the community. These may include a hospice, a school, and a range of agricultural and manufacturing buildings such as a barn, a fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
