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Example sentences for: monasteries

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Look for converted monasteries and countryside farmhouses.
The monetary wealth and vast tracts of land owned by the monasteries were redistributed according to Henry’s favor.
The sights are endless: the Hindu gopuram tower-gates of the south, the temples of Varanasi (Benares), the cave monasteries of Ajanta and Ellora, the beautiful and erotic sculptures of Khajuraho, the splendid marble palaces, fortresses, and mausoleums of the emperors and maharajas in Delhi, Agra, and Rajasthan, the colonial government buildings in New Delhi, or the unusual style of the Gothic-Oriental railway station in Mumbai (known until 1995 as Bombay).
In a sense, the Nonesuch film-music series is like the Cloisters, the hodgepodge of medieval sculpture rescued from crumbling monasteries and churches all over France and patched together in New York City's Fort Tryon Park.
Laid out like a chessboard (nearly half the size of China’s similarly designed capital, Chang’an), Nara had its imperial palace at the northern end, with court residences, Buddhist monasteries, and Shinto shrines stretching to the south.