Trinity Benedictine Monastery was a small community of
Benedictine monks in the town of
Fujimi,
Nagano Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...
,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. The monastery was started in 1999, before which the Benedictines used Saint Anselm's parish and priory (Meguro Church) in Tokyo.
The premises held a chapel, a chapter house, library, dining and leisure space, and rooms for monks and guests. As it was located in Japan all prayers were held in
Japanese. The monastery closed permanently in October 2016.
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Trinity Benedictine Monastery
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Benedictine monasteries in Japan