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Medieval · Catholic CistercianAlcobaça Monastery ChurchAlcobaça, PortugalFrom c. 1178Alcobaça Monastery Church connects architecture, worship, local community, and world Christian history through a vast Cistercian church of austere space, royal patronage, famous tombs, agriculture, monastic suppression, tourism, and liturgical heritageRead the full history Medieval · CatholicBatalha Monastery ChurchBatalha, PortugalFrom c. 1386Batalha Monastery Church connects architecture, worship, local community, and world Christian history through a royal victory foundation, Dominican life, dynastic tombs, unfinished chapels, earthquake, suppression, conservation, and national memoryRead the full history Reformation · CatholicChurch of the Jerónimos MonasteryLisbon, PortugalFrom c. 1501Church of the Jerónimos Monastery connects architecture, worship, local community, and world Christian history through a maritime royal foundation financed through imperial trade, Hieronymite worship, explorers’ memory, colonial wealth, architecture, secularization, and national ceremonyRead the full history