It's not just the library which pulls in crowds of 80,000 every year – the monastery also has a museum of 'curiosities' which include crystals, taxidermy and over 250,000 insect specimens.

A new exhibition by the National Museum of Ireland features 17 ancient manuscripts with margin scribbles by Irish monks from ...

Visit The Largest Monastery Library In The World At Admont Abbey Austria has its fair share of beautiful libraries, like its largest library, a breathtaking ornate structure with an impressive ...

In ancient monastery, a stunning library By Nicole Veash Special to The Christian Science Monitor. May 09, 2002, 12:05 p.m. ET | SINAI, EGYPT Nestled ...

Monastic tradition represents the heart of the library, Morin said. “Our founding monks already had a desire to read, and that obviously focused on sacred scripture,” he said.

Outside the walls, a crowd of 60 supporters gathered to celebrate the long-awaited groundbreaking for a new chapel July 19.

The tower, built around AD 850, contained the monastery's original library. It might have remained a library like any other, had it not been for a decision by the new vizier to tax the monasteries in ...

More than 8,000 books given in December by the Holy Trinity Monastery and Spiritual Center in Pikesville will soon be on the shelves of the Villa Julie College’s library. The books — including ...

The abbey at Pannonhalma was founded in 996, four years before the establishment of the Kingdom of Hungary. Sitting upon a tall hill in northwestern Hungary, the abbey houses the country's oldest ...

Restoration experts at Hungary's Pannonhalma Archabbey are fighting to save thousands of historic books from drugstore ...