Case file · Sacred site
Mount Angel Abbey
Swiss Benedictine monks from Engelberg founded a monastery in Oregon's Willamette Valley in 1882 and moved it to the top of the butte the Kalapuya called Tap-a-lam-a-ho, the Mount of Communion.
1882 CE · 45.06, -122.78 · status: official
The account
The abbey burned in 1892 and again in 1926 and was rebuilt each time. Its library, designed by Alvar Aalto (1970), and its seminary make it one of the main religious centres of the Northwest.