I’d been to this monastery a number of times before. It’s such an unlikely sight in Putnam County, NY that we often take visiting friends there. Since we had some friends over for the weekend we thought we’d go again.

I’d already taken numerous broad view pictures of the monastery so this time I thought I’d focus on some parts of the complex that I hadn’t been to before and also on some interior details. This is the first of two posts. It concentrates of some of the outlying areas of the monastery, which I’ve never visited or photographed before.