Sage Chapel celebrates its history of 150 years of serving the Cornell community as a home for religious life and music on ...

There’s something unforgettable about medieval monasteries: they weren’t just places of worship—they were fortresses of faith ...

A 13-day trip around the region includes watching pilgrims immerse themselves in the ultra-holy Ganges River and a visit to ...

The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for ...

Europe for under ₹1 lakh isn't a hack or compromise—it's strategic travel potentially boosted by government support.

Monastic life looks peaceful from the outside. In reality, monks lived on rigid schedules, heavy meals, and constant prayer. Alcohol was safer than water and consumed daily. Large portions and few ...

Early music — the kind defined as being from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque time periods — reminded Pamela Narbona Jerez of home. As a girl growing up in Santiago, Chile, she sang in the choir ...

Giles Gasper receives funding from Arts and Humanities Research Council, Research England, the John Templeton Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust The best location for a monastery was one that was ...

Discover the story of Westminster Abbey’s Benedictine monastery, from the arrival of the first twelve monks in 960 AD to its dramatic dissolution under Henry VIII in 1540. On this 90-minute journey ...

The Tatev Monastery is just one of five UNESCO-listed religious sites worth visiting in Armenia, the world’s first Christian nation. Eric Martin/Figarophoto, Redux Since Armenia’s adoption of ...

Since Armenia’s adoption of Christianity in 301 C.E., the nation’s monasteries have been central to its worship traditions. After 17 centuries, these UNESCO-recognized sites became deep community ...

Thirteen miles down an unmarked dirt road quietly sits the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, along the Chama River in Northern New Mexico. The monastery is home to 15 monks, some livestock, and a ...