List of sites of the Dominican Order

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Monasteries and other sites of the Dominican Order can be found in numerous countries around the world. This incomplete list is ordered geographically using contemporary country boundaries, which often differ from historical order, and to the extent possible, chronological order of Dominican affiliation within each country. Dates of affiliation with the Order are indicated in parentheses.

Europe

Austria

  • Convent of Saint Nicholas in Friesach (since 1217)
  • Dominikanerinnenkloster Lienz in Lienz (since 1218)
  • Dominican Monastery in Wiener Neustadt (1227-1444), later Stift Neukloster
  • Dominikanerkirche Krems in Krems an der Donau (1236-1786)
  • Dominikanerkonvent (Wien) and Dominican Church in Vienna (since 1237)
  • St. Peter an der Sperr in Wiener Neustadt (c.1240s-1544)
  • Kirche St. Andrä (Graz) in Graz (c.1270-1783)
  • Convent of St. Peter in Bludenz (since 1286, with interruptions)
  • Grazer Stadtpfarrkirche in Graz (14th century-1585)
  • Kloster Thalbach in Bregenz (1436-1782)
  • Dominican Friary in Steyr (1472-1865), now Marienkirche (Steyr)
  • Dominikanerinnenkloster Feldkirch in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg (since 1551)
  • Dominikanerkloster Münzbach in Münzbach (1661-1784)
  • Dominikanerinnenkloster Windhaag in Windhaag bei Perg (1664-1782), now Pfarrkirche Windhaag
  • Dominican Nunnery in Vienna (since 1870)
  • Marienberg Abbey in Bregenz (since 1904)
  • Kloster Hilariberg in Kramsach (1971-2010)

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatia

  • Dominican Friary in Dubrovnik (1225-19th century?)
  • Church of Saint Peter in Stari Grad, Hvar (1479-1571)

Czechia

  • Znaimer Dominikanerkloster in Znojmo (since c.1230s, with interruptions)
  • Dominican Monastery in České Budějovice (1260s-1785)
  • St. Catherine Monastery in Olomouc (1287-1782)
  • Karmelitánský klášter (Tachov) in Tachov (1331-17th century)

Denmark

Estonia

France

  • Notre-Dame-de-Prouille Monastery in rural Aude (1206 or 1207-1793 and since 1856)
  • Église Notre-Dame-de-Recouvrance d'Angers in Angers (1216-1790)
  • Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques in Paris (1218-1790)
  • Dominican Convent in Strasbourg (1224-1531), now Temple Neuf
  • Couvent des Prêcheurs d'Aix-en-Provence in Aix-en-Provence (1226-1790)
  • Ensemble conventuel des Jacobins and Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse (1229-1791); burial place of Thomas Aquinas
  • Couvent des Jacobins de Nantes in Nantes (c.1230-1790)
  • Couvent des Unterlinden in Colmar (1232-1790), now Unterlinden Museum
  • Église Saint-Paul de Valenciennes in Valenciennes (1233-1790)
  • Église Notre-Dame-de-Confort in Lyon (1235-1790)
  • Dominikanerkloster Avignon in Avignon (1241-1790)
  • Couvent des Jacobins d'Auxerre in Auxerre (1245-1790)
  • Couvent des Jacobins de Reims in Reims (1245-1790)
  • Silos monastery in Sélestat (1245-1792)
  • Couvent des Frères Prêcheurs (Perpignan) in Perpignan (c.1245-1793)
  • Église des Jacobins d'Agen in Agen (1249-1790)
  • Silos monastery near Ribeauvillé (1250-1790)
  • Dominican convent in Colmar (1277-1790)
  • Couvent des Jacobins in Saint-Sever (1280-1790)
  • Dominican monastery in Aix-en-Provence (1290-1790)
  • Couvent des dominicains de Collioure in Collioure (1290-1790)
  • Couvent des Jacobins de Saintes in Saintes (1292-1790)
  • Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (1295-1790)
  • Couvent des Dominicaines de l'Isle in Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados (13th century?-1790)
  • Couvent des Dominicains de Carpentras in Carpentras (1312-1790)
  • Couvent des Frères Prêcheurs de Belvès in Belvès (1321-1790)
  • Couvent des Jacobins (Rennes) in Rennes (1367-1793)
  • Schoenensteinbach monastery in Wittenheim (1397-1790)
  • Dominican Friary in Auch (15th century?-1790), now Musée des Jacobins
  • Couvent des Jacobins (Laval) in Laval (1487-1790)
  • Église Saint-Cannat in Marseille (1526-1790)
  • Église Saint-Dominique de Vieux-Thann in Vieux-Thann (1534-1790)
  • Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Honoré in Paris (1611-1790)
  • Dominican novitiate on Rue Saint-Dominique in Paris (1631-1790), now CHurch of Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin
  • Église Notre-Dame de Bordeaux in Bordeaux (1684-1790)
  • Chapelle des Dominicains de Viviers in Viviers, Ardèche (1734-1790)
  • Flavigny Abbey in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (since the 1840s)
  • Monastère de Chalais near Voreppe (1844-1887 and since 1963)
  • Couvent Saint-Jacques in Paris (since 1849), home of Le Saulchoir theology school since 1971
  • Kloster Corbara in Corbara, Haute-Corse (1856-1992, with interruption 1903–1927)
  • Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary in Calais (since 1880)
  • Église Saint-François-de-Paule de Nice in Nice (since 1939)
  • Sainte Marie de La Tourette in Éveux near Lyon (since 1943)
  • Monastère de Bouvines in Bouvines (1945-2003)
  • Couvent des Dominicains de Lille in Lille (since 1952)
  • Abbaye Notre-Dame de Boscodon in Crots (since 1972)
  • Dominican Nunnery in Salernes (since 1980)
  • Prieuré de la Haie-aux-Bonshommes in Avrillé, Maine-et-Loire (since 1982)

Germany

  • Dominicans Island on Lake Constance (1220-1785)
  • Dominikanerkloster Köln in Cologne (1221-1802)
  • St. Katharinen (Halberstadt) in Halberstadt (1224-c.1800)
  • Dominikanerkloster Magdeburg in Magdeburg (1224-1561)
  • Dominikanerkloster Trier in Trier (c.1225-1802)
  • Couvent dominicain de Worms at the Church of Saint Paul in Worms (1227-1797)
  • Burgkloster (Lübeck) and Church of Mary Magdalene in Lübeck (1229-1806)
  • Predigerkirche in Erfurt (1229-1588)
  • Dominican Church of Saint Blasius in Regensburg (1229-1806)
  • Dominikanerkloster Koblenz in Koblenz (c.1230-1802)
  • Dominikanerkloster Soest in Soest (c.1230-1812)
  • Dominikanerkloster St. Pauli Leipzig and Paulinerkirche in Leipzig (1231-1544)
  • Church of Saint Paul in Esslingen am Neckar (1233-1532)
  • Dominican Monastery in Frankfurt am Main (1233-1803)
  • St. Paulus (Hildesheim) in Hildesheim (1233-1546)
  • Dominican Convent in Regensburg (since 1233)
  • Dominikanerkloster Nürnberg in Nuremberg (1234-1525)
  • Kloster Altenhohenau in Griesstätt (1235-1822), now Church of Saints Peter and Paul (Altenhohenau)
  • Kloster St. Katharina in Trier (1235-1802)
  • Dominican Monastery in Freiburg im Breisgau (c.1235-1794)
  • Dominikanerkloster St. Johannis (Hamburg) in Hamburg (1236-1529 and since 1962)
  • Kloster St. Pauli (Minden) in Minden (1236-1736)
  • Kirchberg convent in Sulz am Neckar (1237-1865)
  • Kloster Cronschwitz in Wünschendorf/Elster (1238-1544)
  • Kloster Gotteszell in Schwäbisch Gmünd (1240-1803)
  • Kloster Schwarzhofen in Schwarzhofen (c.1240-1285 and 1691–1802)
  • St Catharine's Convent in Augsburg (1243-1802), now Staatsgalerie Altdeutsche Meister
  • Kloster Lambrecht in Lambrecht, Rhineland-Palatinate (1244-1553)
  • Kloster Mödingen in Mödingen (1246-1802)
  • Kloster Engelthal in Nürnberger Land (1248-1565)
  • Kloster Löwental in Friedrichshafen (1250-1806)
  • Dominikanerinnenkloster Pforzheim in Pforzheim (c.1250-1564)
  • Katharinenkloster (Stralsund) and Church of Saint Catherine in Stralsund (1250s-1525)
  • Kloster Reuthin in Wildberg, Baden-Württemberg (1252-1535)
  • St. Catherine's Monastery in Bremen (1253-1528)
  • Dominikanerkloster Greifswald in Greifswald (1254-1566)
  • Johanniskloster (Rostock) in Rostock (1256-1534)
  • Convent of Saint Gertrude in Cologne (1257-1802)
  • Ehemaliges Dominikanerkloster Mainz in Mainz (1257-1789)
  • Kloster Habsthal in Ostrach (1259-1840)
  • Kloster Sießen in Bad Saulgau (1260-1860)
  • St. Ludwig (Speyer) in Speyer (1262-1802)
  • Kloster Maria Engelport near Treis-Karden (1262-1272)
  • Kloster Obermedlingen in Medlingen (1263-1555 and 1651–1804)
  • Dominican monastery in Bad Wimpfen (1264-1818)
  • Kloster Norden in East Frisia (1264-1527)
  • Augustinerkirche (Würzburg) in Würzburg (1266-1813)
  • Kloster Frauenaurach in Erlangen (1267-1549)
  • Predigerkirche (Rottweil) in Rottweil (1268-1803)
  • Dominikanerkloster Mergentheim in Bad Mergentheim (c.1270-1805)
  • Dominikanerkloster Eichstätt in Eichstätt (1271-1806)
  • Dominikanerkloster Landshut and Dominican Church in Landshut (1271-1802)
  • Kloster Neudingen in Donaueschingen (1274-1559)
  • Dominikanerkloster Prenzlau in Prenzlau (1275-1545)
  • Kloster Stetten in Hechingen (1278-1802)
  • Kloster Maria Himmelskron in Worms (1278-1570)
  • Kloster Ennetach in Mengen (1280-1826)
  • Dominican Convent in Osnabrück (1283-1803), now Kunsthalle Osnabrück
  • St. Maria in vinea in Warburg (1283-1803)
  • Kloster Lauffen in Lauffen am Neckar (1285-1466)
  • Dominikanerkloster Röbel in Röbel (1285-1540s)
  • Kloster St. Pauli (Brandenburg an der Havel) in Brandenburg an der Havel (1286-1560)
  • Church of the College in Jena (1286-1548)
  • University Church of Marburg in Marburg (1291-1526)
  • St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (Wesel) in Wesel (1291-1807)
  • Schwarzes Kloster (Wismar) in Wismar (1293-1562)
  • Dominikanerkloster Aachen and Church of Saint Paul in Aachen (1294-1802)
  • SS. Peter and Paul's Church in Göttingen (1294-1529)
  • Kloster Blankenburg in Oldenburg (1294-1577)
  • Kloster Engelthal (Hallwangen) in Dornstetten (1295-1588)
  • Katharinenkirche in Nuremberg (1295-1596)
  • Dominikanerkloster Cölln in Berlin (c.1297-1536)
  • Klosterkirche Pirna in Pirna (since c.1300)
  • Dominikanerkloster Bamberg in Bamberg (1310-1806)
  • Monastery of Saint Magdalena in Speyer (1304-1802)
  • Church of the Dominicans in Augsburg (1312-1802)
  • Kloster Zoffingen in Konstanz (since 1318)
  • Propsteikirche, Dortmund in Dortmund (1330-1816)
  • Monastery of Saint Ursula in Augsburg (1335-1803 and since 1828)
  • Evangelische Stadtkirche (Treysa) in Treysa (1350-1526)
  • Dominikanerinnenkloster Heilig Grab in Bamberg (1365-1806 and since 1926)
  • Liebenau monastery near Worms (1430-1565)
  • Hospitalkirche (Stuttgart) in Stuttgart (1471-16th century)
  • Klausenkapelle in Meschede (1473-1820)
  • Kloster Galiläa in Meschede (1483-1810)
  • St. Joseph (Gronau) in Gronau, Lower Saxony (1680-1815)
  • Kloster Adelhausen in Freiburg im Breisgau (1687-1867), formed by merger of several earlier Dominican houses, now Adelhauser Kirche Mariä Verkündigung und St. Katharina
  • Dominican Church in Münster (1708-1811)
  • Kloster Wörishofen in Bad Wörishofen (1718-1802 and since 1842)
  • Church of the Saviour in Heidelberg (1720-1802)
  • Dominikanerinnenkloster Fremdingen in Fremdingen (1737-1802 and since 1828)
  • Kloster Landsberg am Lech in Landsberg am Lech (since 1845)
  • Kloster Niederviehbach in Niederviehbach (since 1847)
  • Wettenhausen Abbey in Kammeltal (since 1864)
  • Former Dominican monastery in Düsseldorf (1867-1973)
  • Kloster Dießen in Dießen am Ammersee (1867-1917)
  • Kloster Arenberg in Koblenz (since 1868)
  • Church of Saint Paul in Berlin (since 1869)
  • Polling Abbey in Polling, Weilheim-Schongau (since 1892)
  • Kloster Lohhof in Mindelheim (1902-2001)
  • Kolleg St. Thomas der Dominikaner in Vechta (since 1902)
  • Schlehdorf Abbey in Schlehdorf (since 1904)
  • Kloster Strahlfeld in Roding (since 1917)
  • Kloster Volkersberg in Bad Brückenau (1921-1955)
  • Dominican Convent of Saint Albert in Bornheim-Walberberg (1925-2007)
  • Dominikanerkloster St. Albert (Leipzig) in Leipzig (since 1931)
  • Kloster Heilig Kreuz (Augsburg) in Augsburg (since 1936)
  • St. Andrew's Church in Cologne (since 1947); burial place of Albertus Magnus
  • Theatine Church in Munich (since 1954)
  • Convent of Saint Albertus Magnus in Braunschweig (since 1958)
  • Kloster Neustadt am Main in Neustadt am Main (since 1961)
  • Kommende Lage in Rieste (1999-2020)
  • Institut M.-Dominique Chenu in Berlin (since 2000)
  • Church of Saint Martin in Freiburg im Breisgau (since 2009)

Greece

  • Church of Saint Nicholas in Chania (c.1320-1645)

Hungary

  • Vértesszentkereszti apátság in Vértes Hills (1478-16th century)
  • Church of Saint Jude in Sopron (1719-1780s)

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

  • Marienthal Monastery in Marienthal (13th century-1783)

Malta

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

  • Monastery in Sighișoara (1289-1888)
  • Mănăstirea dominicană din Bistrița in Bistrița (13th to 18th century)

Russia

Slovakia

Slovenia

  • Adergas Monastery in Kranj (1248-1782)

Spain

Sweden

  • Svartbrödraklostret i Lund in Lund (1221-1520s)
  • Sankt Nicolai kyrkoruin, Visby in Visby (1228-1525)
  • St. Mary's Church in Sigtuna (1237-1527)
  • Kloster Åhus in Åhus (1243-16th century)
  • Västerås konvent in Västerås (1244-1527)
  • Sankta Katarinas kloster, Halmstad in Halmstad (c.1260-1531)
  • Skänninge Abbey in Skänninge (1272-1544)
  • St. John's Priory in Kalmar (1299-1505)
  • Black Friars' Monastery in Stockholm (1336-1547)

Switzerland

  • Steinenkloster in Basel (c.1230-16th century)
  • Predigerkloster and Predigerkirche in Zürich (c.1231-1524)
  • Töss Monastery in Winterthur (1233-16th century)
  • Dominican Church in Basel (1233-1529)
  • Kloster St. Katharinental in Diessenhofen (1245-1869)
  • Weesen Abbey in Weesen (since 1256)
  • Französische Kirche (Bern) in Bern (1269-1534)
  • Monastery of Saint Ursula in Aarau (1270-1528)
  • Dominican Nunnery in Basel (1274-1557), now Museum Kleines Klingental
  • Oetenbach nunnery in Zürich (1286-1525)
  • Dominikanerkloster St. Nicolai in Chur (1288-1539)
  • Monastère des dominicaines d'Estavayer in Estavayer-le-Lac (since 1316)
  • Monastery of Saint Catherine in St. Gallen (1368-1594)
  • Kloster Cazis in Cazis (since 1647)
  • Dominican Convent in Ilanz (since 1894)

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Africa, Asia and Oceania

Australia

China

Taiwan

  • Blessed Imelda's School in Taipei (since 1916)
  • Dominican International School in Taipei (since 1957)
  • St Dominic's High School in Kaohsiung
  • St. Dominic's Church in Taipei
  • St. Albert's Priory in Taipei
  • St Catherine's Church in Kaohsiung
  • St. Dominic's Church in Kaohsiung
  • St. Catherine of Siena Church in Kaohsiung
  • St. Dominic's Priory (Jianguo Road) in Kaohsiung
  • St. Dominic's House (Aoya) in Kaohsiung
  • Wan-chin Basilica in Pingtung
  • Holy Cross House in Pingtung
  • Church of the Immaculate Conception in Tainan
  • St. Joseph's House in Tainan

Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Université de l'Uélé in Isiro (since 1998)

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Israel

New Zealand

Pakistan

Philippines

Zimbabwe

Americas

Argentina

Canada

Colombia

Dominican Republic

  • Iglesia y Convento de los Dominicos in Santo Domingo (1510-1823), from 1538 Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino

Ecuador

Guatemala

  • Iglesia de Santo Domingo (Ciudad de Guatemala) in Guatemala City (since 1776, with interruptions)

Mexico

Peru

United States

Uruguay

References

  1. 1.Taking Stock, Newcastle-upon-Tyne – St Dominic from Historic England, retrieved 9 April 2021
  2. 2.Anson Clark, Chapel of St Albert from spottedbylocal.com, 22 March 2021, retrieved 9 April 2021