Closed Cloister In 1725 a pious German named Johann Conrad Beissel emigrated to Pennsylvania, gathered about him a small sect called Seventh Day Baptists. At Ephrata, near Lancaster, Pa., ...

The Cloisters were one of the busiest parts of the Abbey where the monks spent much of their time. A fire in 1298 damaged much of the area of the cloisters of the Norman church so they had to be ...