This simple but beautiful structure is a quiet place on the grounds of a convent in Lucca, Italy. The design firm, Pietro Carlo Pellegrini Architetto, calls it the Wall of Memory:The wall of memory originated from the wi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/07/This-Is-a-Chapel/
In 1939, the Soviet government began damming the Volga River in Russia. The flooding that resulted left the entire Makaryevsky Monastery underwater except for the belfry. That and the artificial island later built around...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/19/The-Monastery-under-the-Lake/
In the Seventh Century, monks built a monastery on the top of a natural stone pillar outside of Chiatura, Georgia. It was used by the Stylites -- Christian ascetics who lived on top of pillars to express their devoti...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/22/the-katskhi-pillar/
Monasteries have always welcomed travelers. When they are no... ...orts. As well as being physically beautiful, ex- monasteries are often strikingly spiritual, as if centuries o... ...ff the mobile. Get a closer look at five such ex- monasteries . Link -via Boing Boing
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/04/16/monasteries-as-hotels/
