Take the lady to the Abbey of the Black Canons...

A monk named Brother Paul came to Alcántara from the north of Spain.

That's right, and in this painting we see the ruins of an abbey, an old abbey and a procession of figures entering this ruined abbey, carrying a coffin.

Varsonofiya went to Mt. Athos on Oct. 23, where he met with the new abbot at a monastery operating within the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On Twitter, AP's photo editor for the Middle East Maya Alleruzzo, who is based in Cairo shares an undated photograph she had taken at Dar Mar Elia before its destruction. She tweets

There is an island in the western part of the lake with a temple and a few hermitages called Mahādeva, the Heart of the Lake (mTsho snying Ma hā de wa) which historically was home to a Buddhist monastery.