Pirita monastery
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Pirita nunnery (Estonian: Pirita klooster) was a monastery, for both monks and nuns dedicated to St. Brigitta, near Pirita.
The idea of founding the monastery dates to merchants of Tallinn of around 1400. In 1407, two monks from the Vadstena monastery arrived to Tallinn to counsel the merchants. First permit to break dolomite to build the complex was acquired in 1417.
Several of the merchants who had originally proposed the monastery later became its monks.
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