Monastery Of St. Scholastica
The Monastery of St. Scholastica is a monastery in Birgu, Malta. The monastery is dedicated to Santa Scholastica, but the church is dedicated to St Anne. It was built in 1679 by Lorenzo Gafà. The monastery and church are listed on the National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands. See also *Culture of Malta *History of Malta *List of Churches in Malta *Religion in Malta References

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Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies south of Sicily (Italy), east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The official languages are Maltese language, Maltese and English language, English, and 66% of the current Maltese population is at least conversational in the Italian language, Italian language. Malta has been inhabited since approximately 5900 BC. Its location in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, with a succession of powers having contested and ruled the islands, including the Phoenicians and Ancient Carthage, Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Knights Hospitaller, Knights of St. John, French, and British, amongst others. With a population of about 516,000 over an ...
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