The Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair, located in a valley of the Grisons in the extreme south-eastern part of Switz ...
Sainte-Marie-Madeleine Priory was founded in 1090-1097. The church, built in two stages between the 11th and 12th centuries ...
Rheinau Abbey (Kloster Rheinau) was a Benedictine monastery in Rheinau founded about 778 and suppressed in 1862. It is lo ...
Formerly the date of the foundation of Disentis Abbey, attributed to the local saints Placidus and Sigisbert, was held to be ...
Ittingen Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery near Warth. It is now used as an education and seminar centre with ...
Königsfelden Monastery is a former Franciscan double monastery, which housed both a community of Poor Clare nuns and o ...
The Frauenkloster nunnery in Schwyz was established in 1275. The current buildings date from the 17th century, the church was ...
The Tellskapelle ('Tell"s chapel') on the shore of Lake Lucerne. The Catholic chapel marks the site where acc ...
A Capuchin monastery was established in Stans in 1583 by Melchior Lussy, who had been sent to the Council of Trent. Initially ...
The City Church of Bremgarten is an important landmark. The church was built in 1300 and was consecrated in honor of Sain ...
Saint Othmar, the first abbot of the Abbey of St. Gall was sent into exile to Werd in 759. He died on Werd on 16 November ...
Weesen Abbey, established in 1256, is the oldest Dominican monastery of nuns in Switzerland. The buildings and the library (a ...
Fischingen Abbey was founded in 1138 by Ulrich II, Bishop of Constanz as a private episcopal monastery, with the intention ...
Mariastein Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Metzerlen-Mariastein. After Einsiedeln, it is the second most important pl ...
St. Paul"s Church (Pauluskirche) was constructed between 1898 and 1901 by Karl Moser (1860–1936) and Robert Curjel ...
Engelberg Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Engelberg, Canton of Obwalden. Founded in 1120 by Count Blessed Conrad of Selde ...
The Abbey of Saint Maurice d"Agaune dates from the 6th century. It is situated against a cliff in a section of the road ...
The land for the Hauterive abbey was donated between 1132-1137 by Baron Guillaume de Glâne (died in 1143, his grave is in th ...
Kreuzlingen Abbey was founded in about 1125 by Ulrich I of Dillingen, Bishop of Constance, as a house of Augustinian Canons. ...
According to the legend, Bellelay Abbey was founded in 1136 by Siginand, prior of the abbey of Moutier-Grandval, who got lost ...