Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: monastery

Other than the identity of this building as a Franciscan Monastery, I've been unable to get much more information about it. Does anybody know anything?

Here's another shot of the flowerbeds and clothes shop from farther out.

Here are a couple of the flowerbeds in Frantiskanska Zahrada. The small yellow building behind them is now a clothes shop, but I'm assuming it was once associated with the monastery.

Trying to finish my roll of film with something decent, and realising that I had never photographed Frantiskanska Zahrada before, I walked back into the garden during a break and took some photos. The garden is behind St. Mary of the Snows Church, seen here. This was once a monastery (as far as I know it isn't anymore), although it went by several different names through the centuries. The church dates to 1372.

Here's a doorway to the monastery.

Here's another angle. This boxier building serves partly as a hotel.

Here's another well-exposed cameraphone shot of the monastery.

Here's a different angle. Somehow the cameraphone balanced the exposure just right here.

Here's one of the wrecked cars at the garage........providing an um......interesting(?) foreground to the monastery

Here's another shot of the monastery, with the garage in the foreground.

Strangely, the Brevnov Monastery is also home to a garage, Brabec Pneuservis.

While I was in Brevnov, I had some time to photograph more than the tram stop, so I walked over to the monastery.

Strahovsky Klaster (Strahov Monastery) is one of the oldest complexes of buildings in Prague, although that tower to the left is the Petrin watchtower, which is much newer, dating to 1891. The Monastery wasn't built all at once, of course, but was constructed in stages from 1140-1798, at least from I can quickly ascertain from what's online. The most famous feature is the library, which although it has a collection stretching back hundreds and hundreds of years, was built in its current form as the Philosophical Hall as recently as 1782. If I've misinterpreted my sources, or if there's more to add, please comment and do so!! Thanks. :-)

I'm fairly sure that this is either a castle, school, barracks, or monastery in Liberec, but I have to do some more research. If anyone can help me, I would be grateful.