Charterhouse of the Transfiguration

The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration is the only Carthusian monastery in the United States, located on Mt. Equinox, in Sandgate, Vermont. It was founded in 1960 under the initiative of Fr. Thomas Verner Moore and completed in 1970. It superseded the earlier monastery at Sky Farm and Grace Farm (Charterhouse of Our Lady of Bethlehem), near Whitingham, Vermont, which Fr. Thomas had established in 1950.[1]

The charterhouse in 2006

The 7,000-acre (28 km2) property was donated by Joseph George Davidson, a retired Union Carbide Corporation executive.[2]

The charterhouse was designed by architect Victor Christ-Janer & Associates of New Canaan, Connecticut, and fabricated of Vermont granite blocks.[2]

References
  1. Charterhouse of the Transfiguration by Prof Kent Emery, Jr, publ. Editions des Cahiers de l'Alpe, Grenoble 1986, pp. 459x476; repr. 2009 in Carthusian Booklets Series No 13 (digital version)
  2. The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration, ed. Dr James Hogg, from Monasticon Cartusiense Analecta Cartusiana 185:4), Salzburg 2006, tom. IV, pars II, pp. 860x867; repr. 2009 in Carthusian Booklets Series No 13 (digital version)

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