Streets closer to religious places, adjacent to churches, or with prominent devout members got their names inspired by them. But the origins aren’t always clear.

Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem just concluded their second season of excavations at Hyrcania, where they found colorful Byzantine mosaics and Herodian frescoes ...

A medieval Christian monastery at the site with four cemeteries and hundreds of graves was examined in a post-excavation analysis. The details of the findings were published in the journal Antiquity.

It was made at the beginning of the ninth century, probably by Celtic Christian monks on the island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides. The manuscript consists of the four Christian gospels ...

For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ.

The Renaissance-style complex includes a large church and two cloisters, and is the first Christian monastery built after the Catholics Monarchs gained control of the city. The order of the ...

The pagoda is also the long-lost, earliest surviving Christian monastery in China, called Da Qin. Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the origin of Christianity, and how the religion’s past ...