Place of worship
Engelberg Abbey
Working Benedictine abbey and boarding school beneath alpine peaks, active for nine centuries.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Engelberg Abbey in Switzerland follows local ski racer Dominique Gisin, whose Olympic downhill run became one of the strangest finishes in Winter Games history, back to the nine-hundred-year-old Benedictine monastery and its boarding school. It traces the abbey's founding in the twelfth century, a fire that reshaped it in the eighteenth, and the mountain tradition still sending students onto those same slopes.
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