The ruling comes in spite of Egyptian promises to maintain “the unique and sacred religious status of Saint Catherine’s ...

Our writer stops by the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old Sherpa religious center where Mount Everest climbers receive a blessing before their expeditions When you walk into the Sherpa village ...

When you walk into the Sherpa village of Pangboche ... before all of the tourists and trekkers showed up. The town is built around a 600-year-old monastery, the oldest in the Khumbu Valley.

What will happen to the assets of the monastery and which of them are among the "fillets" claimed by the Egyptian State - The ...

Discover 11 stunning Buddhist monasteries in India offering spiritual serenity, breathtaking Himalayan views, ancient art, ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery, built high into a cliffside on the ...

Much of the Christian world, especially the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, have been roiled by reports that an ...

If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would ... the shrine has witnessed the evolution of the Roman Empire into the Byzantine era, the rise of the Ottomans, the ...

A 1,600-year-old Byzantine-era mosaic from a Christian monastery was recently put on public display for the first time, giving a glimpse into life during ... The monastery was built near an ...

A former monastery built in the 1930s in Jamaica Plain may soon be repurposed into housing, according to documents filed with the city’s Planning Department. Wellesley-based Sixteen Penny ...