Place of worship
Tautra Mariakloster
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Location
Frosta, Trøndelag
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Welcome to Tautra Mariakloster. We are a community of eleven nuns who live the Cistercian (Trappistine) life in central Norway. We are located on the Island of Tautra in the Trondheim Fjord.
The Tautra Monastery in the name of St. Mary is a newly founded Trappistine community, and it is the first permanent Cistercian settlement in Norway since the Reformation. It was founded in 1999, near the ruins of the medieval monastery, as a foundation of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey, Iowa, US. The first stone of the building was laid down by Queen Sonja of Norway on 23 May 2003. The new monastery was granted general autonomy on 26 May 2006. On 25 March 2012, the status of the monastery was raised to that of Major Priory in the Cistercian Order.
The Tautra Monastery in the name of St. Mary is a newly founded Trappistine community, and it is the first permanent Cistercian settlement in Norway since the Reformation. It was founded in 1999, near the ruins of the medieval monastery, as a foundation of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey, Iowa, US…