Tautra Abbey

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Tautra Abbey (Tautra Mariakloster) is a Cistercian nunnery on the island of Tautra in Trøndelag, central Norway.

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Ruins of the nave and its West entry

There was a previous Cistercian monastery here, Tuterø Abbey, founded in 1207 and dissolved during the Reformation in 1537, of which the ruins are still to be seen.

[edit] Tautra Abbey

Transitional building of the new abbey with chapel and guest house

This is a newly founded Cistercian nunnery, and is the first permanent Cistercian settlement in Norway since the Reformation. It was founded in 1999, near the ruins of the medieval monastery. The foundation stone was laid by Queen Sonja of Norway on 23 May 2003. The new abbey was granted autonomy on 26 May 2006.

The seven Cistercian nuns who established the nunnery hope to be a point of contact and exchange between the Norwegian tradition and Cistercian spirituality.