Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a significant Christian monastery dating back to roughly 1,500 years ago at a site in Israel. The remains include a remarkable colorful mosaic floor ...

A medieval Christian monastery at the site with four cemeteries and hundreds of graves was examined in a post-excavation analysis. The details of the findings were published in the journal Antiquity.

For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ.

When a community of Christian monks decided to erect their monastery on a hilltop in the Judean Desert in the 5th century CE, adorning it with mosaics and polychromatic decorations, they knew they ...

The pagoda is also the long-lost, earliest surviving Christian monastery in China, called Da Qin. Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the origin of Christianity, and how the religion’s past ...

The Renaissance-style complex includes a large church and two cloisters, and is the first Christian monastery built after the Catholics Monarchs gained control of the city. The order of the ...

An Early Christian rock monastery in Northeast Bulgaria, which according to some historians andarchaeologists is the oldest of its kind in Europe, has been revived for the first time since the ...