• They sacked the monastery, looted its riches and burned it down. Pirita Convent was abandoned since then, but local people used adjacent lands as a cemetery.
  • The map of Pirita Convent Ruins Park, Tallinn, Estonia. Systematic archaeological researches in Pirita Convent began in 1930.
  • Residences of abbesses in Estonian monastic architecture, based on the examples of St Michael’s Cistercian convent in Tallinn and the Brigittine convent in Pirita.
  • The Pirita Convent or Monastery of St. Bridget is one of Tallinn’s landmarks. Its walls rise above the river bank, making the landscape complete.
  • Pirita Convent (Estonian: Pirita klooster) was a monastery, for both monks and nuns dedicated to St. Brigitta, in the district of Pirita in Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Pirita Convent is an abandoned Roman Catholic religious complex that dates to the 15th century. It was constructed on the North- East outskirts of Tallinn.
  • The Pirita Monastery is located next to the ruins of the Pirita Convent and is one of the oldest monasteries in Estonia.
  • Pirita Convent (Pirita klooster) was an important 15th century nunnery of the order of St. Bridget and now stands as a picturesque ruin in modern-day Estonia.
  • The Pirita Convent was a monastery for both monks and nuns in Tallinn. It was dedicated to St. Brigitta and functioned from 1417 to 1575.
  • While the ruins of the 15th-century Birgitine nuns’ convent have always been the landmark of Pirita, the issue was taken up in 1997 to re-establish the institution and...