monastery refectory

Named after New Norcia's founder, this is furnished in a style reminiscent of the monastery refectory.

The painting in the monastery refectory (1643) is of particular interest, being one of the rare decorations in the Balkans modelled on Mount Athos.

The monastery refectory near Todaiji Temple at Nara has a large wooden statue of Binzuru, depicting him seated in the lotus position.

Leonardo da Vinci painted his "Last Supper" on the north wall of the monastery refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan during the last decade of the 15th century.

The monastery refectory was restored with the help of local Serbs from Sredska and Sirinić, so that the celebration of the 650th anniversary of the monastery could take place, on 26 July 2002, attended by almost 1,000 Serbs.

In 1946 the Abbot of the monastery, Abbot Columbian, commissioned Dom Gregory De Wit, a very talented Benedictine artist, to fill the abbey church, monastery, and monastery refectory with beautiful murals.

His major buildings include the civic buildings in Moscow (notably the Krutitsy Teremok and the Simonov Monastery refectory) and the archaic-looking Baroque cathedrals in Kiev (the katholikons of St. Nicholas and Epiphany Monasteries).

Two large pictures formerly in the monastery refectory are now in the parish church of Notre-Dame in Bonneval, depicting the miracle of the loaves and the fishes and Jesus healing Simon the Leper, a copy of an original by Nicolas Poussin.