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  • Ipatiev Monastery
  • Monastery in Russia

    The Ipatiev Monastery (Russian: Ипатьевский монастырь; also Ipatievsky Monastery), sometimes translated into English as Hypatian Monastery, is a male monastery

    Ipatiev Monastery

    Ipatiev Monastery

    Ipatiev_Monastery

  • Ipatiev House
  • House where the Romanovs were imprisoned

    chance, from 1908 the house's name was identical with that of the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, where the Romanov dynasty had come to the throne. In

    Ipatiev House

    Ipatiev House

    Ipatiev_House

  • Ipatiev
  • Topics referred to by the same term

    Ipatiev may refer to: Ipatiev House, a house in Yekaterinburg, Russia where Nicholas II and his family were killed Ipatiev Monastery, a monastery in Kostroma

    Ipatiev

    Ipatiev

  • House of Romanov
  • Imperial dynasty of Russia (1613–1917)

    scientists to make accurate identifications. The Ipatiev House has the same name as the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, where Mikhail Romanov had been offered

    House of Romanov

    House of Romanov

    House_of_Romanov

  • Hypatian Codex
  • Manuscript

    as the Hypatian Codex was most likely acquired from the Ipatiev Monastery (Hypatian Monastery) in Kostroma on 15 May 1767. This would have happened during

    Hypatian Codex

    Hypatian Codex

    Hypatian_Codex

  • Michael of Russia
  • Tsar of Russia from 1613 to 1645

    the council did not discover the young Tsar and his mother at the Ipatiev Monastery near Kostroma until 24 March. He had been chosen after several other

    Michael of Russia

    Michael of Russia

    Michael_of_Russia

  • Nicholas II
  • Emperor of Russia from 1894 to 1917

    Volga River that was made by the teenage Michael Romanov from the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma to Moscow in 1613 when he finally agreed to become tsar

    Nicholas II

    Nicholas II

    Nicholas_II

  • List of abbeys and priories
  • Solovetsky Monastery Khutyn Monastery Ipatiev Monastery Valaam Monastery Danilov Monastery Andronikov Monastery Alexander Nevsky Monastery Marfo-Mariinsky

    List of abbeys and priories

    List_of_abbeys_and_priories

  • Seamless robe of Jesus
  • Robe said to have been worn by Jesus during or shortly before his crucifixion

    in Moscow, and small portions at Kyiv's Sophia Cathedral, at the Ipatiev monastery near Kostroma and at certain other old temples. The Russian Orthodox

    Seamless robe of Jesus

    Seamless robe of Jesus

    Seamless_robe_of_Jesus

  • Kostroma
  • City in Kostroma Oblast, Russia

    through the northern port of Archangel. Boris Godunov had the Ipatiev and Epiphany monasteries rebuilt in stone. The construction works were finished just

    Kostroma

    Kostroma

    Kostroma

  • List of Eastern Orthodox monasteries
  • Convent Ipatiev Monastery Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery Kamenny Monastery Khutyn Monastery Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery Kiy Island Konevsky Monastery Kozheozersky

    List of Eastern Orthodox monasteries

    List_of_Eastern_Orthodox_monasteries

  • Vorotynsky
  • Russian noble family

    Romanov as a new tsar, Vorotynsky led a deputation of boyars to the Ipatiev Monastery to inform Mikhail about his election. Later, he governed Kazan and

    Vorotynsky

    Vorotynsky

    Vorotynsky

  • List of Russian Orthodox monasteries
  • Yama Goritsky Monastery (Goritsy) Goritsky Monastery (Pereslavl-Zalessky) Holy Trinity Monastery (Jordanville, New York) Ipatiev Monastery Joseph-Volokolamsk

    List of Russian Orthodox monasteries

    List_of_Russian_Orthodox_monasteries

  • Murder of the Romanov family
  • 1918 murder in Yekaterinburg, Russia

    family was imprisoned with their few remaining retainers in Yekaterinburg's Ipatiev House, which was designated the House of Special Purpose (Russian: Дом

    Murder of the Romanov family

    Murder of the Romanov family

    Murder_of_the_Romanov_family

  • Eastern Orthodox church architecture
  • Type of church building

    in a monastery is called a katholikon, and may be reserved for major services, lesser services being celebrated in other churches in the monastery. A church

    Eastern Orthodox church architecture

    Eastern Orthodox church architecture

    Eastern_Orthodox_church_architecture

  • Dazhbog
  • Slavic deity

    15th-century compilation of several much older documents from the Ipatiev Monastery in Russia. The complete passage, reconstructed from several manuscripts

    Dazhbog

    Dazhbog

    Dazhbog

  • Ivan Susanin
  • Russian martyr (died 1613)

    issue of the legend's doubtful historicity because it was in the Ipatiev Monastery, not Domnino, that Mikhail Romanov lived in 1612. His arguments were

    Ivan Susanin

    Ivan_Susanin

  • Iconostasis
  • Screen dividing Eastern Orthodox churches

    Constantinople (in today's Istanbul). In many monastery churches and chapels (though often not in the katholikon, the monastery's main church) one may find iconostases

    Iconostasis

    Iconostasis

    Iconostasis

  • Church bell
  • Bell in a church

    Suomenlinna Church Bell for San Miguel Mission Ringing the bells at Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, Russia. Ring of eight bells in the tower of St Michael

    Church bell

    Church bell

    Church_bell

  • Romanov Tercentenary
  • Celebration in the Russian Empire

    greeted by a large crowd of townspeople. Here Nicholas visited the Ipatiev Monastery, where Michael had sought refuge from the invading Poles and the Muscovite

    Romanov Tercentenary

    Romanov Tercentenary

    Romanov_Tercentenary

  • Primary Chronicle
  • 12th-century chronicle of Kievan Rus'

    Ostrozhsky. A copy was found in Russia in the 18th century at the Ipatiev Monastery of Kostroma by the Russian historian Nikolai Karamzin.[citation needed]

    Primary Chronicle

    Primary Chronicle

    Primary_Chronicle

  • Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)
  • War between Russia and Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth

    and Shuyski was reportedly taken to a monastery, forcibly shaved as a monk, and compelled to remain at the monastery under guard. He was later sent to Warsaw

    Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)

    Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)

    Polish–Russian_War_(1609–1618)

  • Russian Orthodox bell ringing
  • Tradition in the Russian Orthodox church

    symbolic of the proclamation of the Gospel. Sometimes Orthodox churches and monasteries will combine the use of bells with the striking of a wooden or metal

    Russian Orthodox bell ringing

    Russian Orthodox bell ringing

    Russian_Orthodox_bell_ringing

  • List of castles in Russia
  • Yaroslavl Oblast 14th century-1774 Ipatiev Monastery Ипатьевский монастырь Kostroma Oblast 1432-1840 Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery Иосифо-Волокский монастырь Moscow

    List of castles in Russia

    List_of_castles_in_Russia

  • Alexei Savrasov
  • Russian painter

    1871 Monastery of Caves near Nizhny Novgorod (1871) Sukharev Tower (1872) Rainbow (1873) Spring Day, 1873 Rafts (1873) The Volga, 1874 Monastery Gates

    Alexei Savrasov

    Alexei Savrasov

    Alexei_Savrasov

  • History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648)
  • Early history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

    Mikhail Romanov learned about his election to the Russian throne at the Ipatiev Monastery in 1613

    History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648)

    History of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1648)

    History_of_the_Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth_(1569–1648)

  • Marina Mniszech
  • Tsaritsa of Russia in 1606

    Gate for months. Marina said: "Damn you! In the Ipatiev's [Monastery] you started, in the Ipatiev's [House] you will end! You began with the death of

    Marina Mniszech

    Marina Mniszech

    Marina_Mniszech

  • Royal doors
  • Doors of the iconostasis in churches

    p. 256. Archpriest Seraphim Slobodskoy, The Law of God (Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY, ISBN 0-88465-044-8), p. 532. Ken Parry, et al., The

    Royal doors

    Royal doors

    Royal_doors

  • Russian Church property restitution
  • Process of transferring property to the ownership of religious organizations

    Thus, in 2002, on the territory of the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma, which is administered by the monastery, a unique wooden church, brought from the

    Russian Church property restitution

    Russian_Church_property_restitution

  • Pühtitsa Convent
  • Monastery in Estonia

    convent. In 1888, the Russian Orthodox Church sent a nun from the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma to establish a convent in Pühtitsa. The katholikon was

    Pühtitsa Convent

    Pühtitsa Convent

    Pühtitsa_Convent

  • Ganina Yama
  • Pit in a Russian coal mine

    Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (who had been murdered at the Ipatiev House) were secretly transported to Ganina Yama and thrown into the pit

    Ganina Yama

    Ganina Yama

    Ganina_Yama

  • Canonization of the Romanovs
  • Elevation to sainthood of the Russian imperial family

    Church. The family was murdered by the Bolsheviks on 17 July 1918 at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. The house was later demolished. The Church on Blood

    Canonization of the Romanovs

    Canonization of the Romanovs

    Canonization_of_the_Romanovs

  • Kostroma (river)
  • River in Russia

    River flowed into the Volga within the city limits of Kostroma. The Ipatiev Monastery stands at the old confluence of the Kostroma and the Volga. The river

    Kostroma (river)

    Kostroma (river)

    Kostroma_(river)

  • The Amazing Race Australia 3
  • Season of television series

    the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers, overlooking the Ipatiev Monastery. Episode 7: "There's A Lot of Bones In This, I Really Don't Wanna

    The Amazing Race Australia 3

    The_Amazing_Race_Australia_3

  • Danila Matveyev
  • колокольных дел мастер) in 1647 after having cast a 700-pood bell for the Ipatiev Monastery in Kostroma with his son Yemelyan Danilov. In 1651, Danila and Yemelyan

    Danila Matveyev

    Danila_Matveyev

  • Diocese of Kostroma
  • January 1746 and chose to settle in the Cathedral of Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery, which until 1918 was the official residence of the Kostroma Bishops

    Diocese of Kostroma

    Diocese of Kostroma

    Diocese_of_Kostroma

  • Sergei Nilus
  • Russian religious writer (1862–1929)

    last Tsar and Empress were to read during their last incarceration at the Ipatiev House, On the Banks of the River of God, a diary of Nilus' years at Optina

    Sergei Nilus

    Sergei Nilus

    Sergei_Nilus

  • Eugenia Smith
  • Romanov impostor

    west. By her own account, she regained consciousness in the cellar of the Ipatiev House after the execution, and was rescued by an unidentified woman who

    Eugenia Smith

    Eugenia Smith

    Eugenia_Smith

  • Golden Gate, Kyiv
  • Historic landmark in Kyiv, Ukraine

    Retrieved 30 April 2026. "Golden Gate Kiev, Ukraine". www.ukraine.com. In the Ipatiev Chronicles of that period (1146–1151) mention is frequently made of the

    Golden Gate, Kyiv

    Golden Gate, Kyiv

    Golden_Gate,_Kyiv

  • Yekaterinburg
  • City in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

    sent to internal exile in Yekaterinburg where they were imprisoned in the Ipatiev House in the city. In July 1918, the Czechoslovak Legions were closing

    Yekaterinburg

    Yekaterinburg

    Yekaterinburg

  • Simeon of Verkhoturye
  • Patron Saint

    given to a Uralian anti-religious museum in Ekaterinburg, located in the Ipatiev House, in late 1935. After the dissolution of the museum funds, the relics

    Simeon of Verkhoturye

    Simeon of Verkhoturye

    Simeon_of_Verkhoturye

  • Swastika
  • Ancient Eurasian icon and Nazi symbol

    with a pencil on the wall and in the window opening of the room in the Ipatiev House, which served as the place of the last imprisonment of the royal

    Swastika

    Swastika

    Swastika

  • Galician–Volhynian Chronicle
  • 1201–1292 Old Ruthenian historiographical work

    considered the principal one). In 1973, five copies were known: Hypatian (Ipatiev), Khlebnikov (X), Pogodin (P), Cracow (C), and Ermolaev (E). As of 2022

    Galician–Volhynian Chronicle

    Galician–Volhynian Chronicle

    Galician–Volhynian_Chronicle

  • Vawkavysk
  • Town in Grodno Region, Belarus

    Galicia-Volhynia resulted in frequent fighting over these territories. The Ipatiev Chronicle mentions Vawkavysk in connection with an invasion of the Galicia-Volhynian

    Vawkavysk

    Vawkavysk

    Vawkavysk

  • Mstsislaw
  • Town in Mogilev Region, Belarus

    2025, it has a population of 9,959. Mstislavl was first mentioned in the Ipatiev Chronicle in 1156. It was initially a part of the Principality of Smolensk

    Mstsislaw

    Mstsislaw

    Mstsislaw

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  • Galler
  • Surname or Lastname

    German

    Galler

    German : patronymic from a personal name (Latin Gallus) which was widespread in Europe in the Middle Ages (see Gall 2).German : nickname for someone in the service of the monastery of St Gallen, or a habitational name for someone from the city in Switzerland so named.English : variant of Gallier.Hungarian (Gallér) : from gallér ‘collar’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a taylor, in particular a maker of military garments.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Galle ‘bile’, ‘gall’, with the agent suffix -er. This surname seems to have been one of the group of names selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials.

    Galler

  • Hugh
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Hugh

    English : from the Old French personal name Hu(gh)e, introduced to Britain by the Normans. This is in origin a short form of any of the various Germanic compound names with the first element hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’. Compare, for example, Howard 1, Hubble, and Hubert. It was a popular personal name among the Normans in England, partly due to the fame of St. Hugh of Lincoln (1140–1200), who was born in Burgundy and who established the first Carthusian monastery in England.In Ireland and Scotland this name has been widely used as an equivalent of Celtic Aodh ‘fire’, the source of many Irish surnames (see for example McCoy).

    Hugh

  • Keller
  • Surname or Lastname

    German

    Keller

    German : from Middle High German kellaere ‘cellarman’, ‘cellar master’ (Latin cellarius, denoting the keeper of the cella ‘store chamber’, ‘pantry’). Hence an occupational name for the overseer of the stores, accounts, or household in general in, for example, a monastery or castle. Kellers were important as trusted stewards in a great household, and in some cases were promoted to ministerial rank. The surname is widespread throughout central Europe.English : either an occupational name for a maker of caps or cauls, from Middle English kellere, or an occupational name for an executioner, from Old English cwellere.Irish : reduced form of Kelleher.Scottish : variant of Keillor.

    Keller

  • Seller
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Scottish

    Seller

    English and Scottish : topographic name, a variant of Sell 1.English and Scottish : occupational name for a saddler, from Anglo-Norman French seller (Old French sellier, Latin sellarius, a derivative of sella ‘seat’, ‘saddle’).English and Scottish : metonymic occupational name for someone employed in the cellars of a great house or monastery, from Anglo-Norman French celler ‘cellar’ (Old French cellier), or a reduction of the Middle English agent derivative cellerer.English and Scottish : occupational name for a tradesman or merchant, from an agent derivative of Middle English sell(en) ‘to sell’ (Old English sellan ‘to hand over, deliver’).German : probably a habitational name from a place named Sella near Hoyerswerda.

    Seller

  • Patdev
  • Boy/Male

    Indian, Punjabi, Sikh

    Patdev

    Honourable Lord

    Patdev

  • PATYA
  • Male

    Russian

    PATYA

    (Патя) Pet form of Russian Ipati, PATYA means "most high, supreme." 

    PATYA

  • Kitchen
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Scottish

    Kitchen

    English and Scottish : from Middle English kychene ‘kitchen’, hence an occupational name for someone who worked in or was in charge of the kitchen of a monastery or great house.Scottish and northern Irish : variant of McCutcheon.

    Kitchen

  • Purchase
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Purchase

    English : metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for obtaining the supplies required by a monastery or manor house, from Anglo-Norman French purchacer ‘to acquire or buy’ (Old French pourchacier, from chacier ‘to chase or catch’ + the intensive prefix p(o)ur, Latin pro).

    Purchase

  • Rideout
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Rideout

    English : occupational name for an outrider, from Middle English rid(en) ‘to ride’ + out ‘out’, ‘forth’. An outrider (Middle English outridere) was an officer of a sheriff’s court or of a monastery whose duties included riding out to collect dues and supervise manors.

    Rideout

  • IPATI
  • Male

    Russian

    IPATI

    Variant spelling of Russian Ipatiy, IPATI means "most high, supreme." 

    IPATI

  • Spence
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Scottish

    Spence

    English and Scottish : metonymic occupational name for a servant employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’, ‘storeroom’ (a reduced form of Old French despense, from a Late Latin derivative of dispendere, past participle dispensus, ‘to weigh out or dispense’).

    Spence

  • Jewell
  • Surname or Lastname

    English (of Breton or Cornish origin)

    Jewell

    English (of Breton or Cornish origin) : from a Celtic personal name, Old Breton Iudicael, composed of elements meaning ‘lord’ + ‘generous’, ‘bountiful’, which was borne by a 7th-century saint, a king of Brittany who abdicated and spent the last part of his life in a monastery. Forms of this name are found in medieval records not only in Devon and Cornwall, where they are of native origin, but also in East Anglia and even Yorkshire, whither they were imported by Bretons after the Norman Conquest.

    Jewell

  • Winthrop
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Winthrop

    English : habitational name from places in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire called Winthorpe. The former is named with the Old English personal name or byname Wine, meaning ‘friend’, + Old Norse þorp ‘settlement’. In the latter the first element is a contracted form of the Old English personal name Wigmund, composed of the elements wīg ‘war’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse equivalent, Vígmundr.John Winthrop (1588–1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He kept a detailed journal, an invaluable source for historians. He was born into a family of Suffolk, England, gentry whose fortunes were founded by his grandfather Adam Winthrop (d. 1562) of Lavenham. In 1544 the latter acquired a 500-acre estate that had been part of the monastery of Bury St. Edmunds. John Winthrop emigrated from Groton, Suffolk, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630 because of Charles I’s anti-Puritan policies. By the time of his death he had had four wives and 16 children, the most notable of whom was his son John (1606–76), a scientist and governor of CT. His descendants were prominent in politics and science, including John Winthrop (1714–79), an astronomer, and Robert Winthrop (1809–94), a senator and speaker of the House of Representatives.

    Winthrop

  • Storer
  • Surname or Lastname

    English and Scottish

    Storer

    English and Scottish : from an agent derivative of Middle English stor ‘provisions’, ‘supplies’, hence an occupational name for an official in charge of dispensing provisions in a great house or monastery, or who collected rents paid in kind. The word stor was also used in the Middle Ages for livestock, and the surname may sometimes have denoted a keeper of animals.South German : from a Bavarian dialect word, storer, denoting an unskilled workman, i.e. someone who was not a member of a craft guild.

    Storer

  • Galpin
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Galpin

    English : occupational name for a messenger or scullion (in a monastery), from Old French galopin ‘page’, ‘turnspit’, from galoper ‘to gallop’.

    Galpin

  • IPATIY
  • Male

    Russian

    IPATIY

    (Ипатий) Russian form of Greek Hypatos, IPATIY means "most high, supreme." 

    IPATIY

  • Hinton
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Hinton

    English : habitational name from any of the numerous places so called, which split more or less evenly into two groups with different etymologies. One set (with examples in Berkshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire) is named from the Old English weak dative hēan (originally used after a preposition and article) of hēah ‘high’ + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The other (with examples in Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, and Wiltshire) has Old English hīwan ‘household’, ‘monastery’. Compare Hine as the first element.

    Hinton

  • Freer
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Freer

    English : from Old French and Middle English frere ‘friar’ (Latin frater, literally ‘brother’). This was a status name for a member a religious order, especially a mendicant order, and may also have been a nickname for a pious person or for someone employed at a monastery.Americanized spelling of French Frère (see Frere).North German and Dutch : cognate of Friedrich.

    Freer

  • Santry
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Santry

    English : from Middle English, Old French seintuarie ‘sanctuary’, ‘shrine’ (Late Latin sanctuarium, a derivative of sanctus ‘holy’); a topographic name for someone who lived near a shrine, or a nickname for someone who had had occasion to take sanctuary in a church or monastery, where he would have been afforded immunity from arrest or injury.

    Santry

  • Spencer
  • Surname or Lastname

    English

    Spencer

    English : occupational name for someone employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’ + the agent suffix -er.

    Spencer

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  • Hospice
  • n.

    A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.

  • Penitentiary
  • n.

    A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.

  • Obedience
  • n.

    A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.

  • Xenodochium
  • n.

    In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.]

  • Parlor
  • n.

    The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.

  • Monk
  • n.

    A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.

  • Charterhouse
  • n.

    A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

  • Oblati
  • n. pl.

    A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.

  • Superior
  • n.

    The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.

  • Monasterial
  • a.

    Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life.

  • Slype
  • n.

    A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery.

  • Monastery
  • n.

    A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.

  • Minster
  • n.

    A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.

  • Secular
  • a.

    Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.

  • Trappist
  • n.

    A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.

  • Monasteries
  • pl.

    of Monastery

  • Lamasery
  • n.

    A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc.

  • Scriptorium
  • n.

    In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.

  • Paradise
  • n.

    An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

  • Chartreuse
  • n.

    A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.