The Domician Monastery
In 1517 the Reformation started in German and very quickly spread into the Baltic states.
The loyalty of the friars to Rome made them immediate victims. In 1523 a Lutheran mob
burnt down the Franciscan monastery in Kuramaa. The Dominican monastery in Tallinn
was destroyed on ,1524.
In 1954 the former garden, cloister and refectory of the Dominican monastery were
restored and opened to visitors. One of the most beautiful and peacefri pleaces in Talliun
is the cloister garden whict is-bordered on one side by the church of Saints Peter and Paul
and on the other by the original church of Saint Catherin. The .cloisxer and refectory
contain a permanent exhibition of carved stone slabs.
Sea and limestone ( dolomaite) are two symbols of northern Estonia. Tallinn owes much
of its distincitve flavour to the use of the beautiful stone in its walls and towers,and in its
secular and religious architecure. Carved stone decorated public buildings and private
houses
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