Aalborg Monastery of the Holy Ghost

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Denmark's oldest nursing home

By Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen, Postdoc, Ph.D. Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, KU (13 stories)

The Monastery of the Holy Ghost in Aalborg was built in 1431, but not established as a monastery until 1451. It functioned as a hospital and nursing home for the city's ill and poor inhabitants. After the Reformation in 1536, the monastery was converted into a…

The Monastery of the Holy Ghost in Aalborg was built in 1431, but not established as a monastery until 1451. It functioned as a hospital and nursing home for the city's ill and poor inhabitants. After the Reformation in 1536, the monastery was converted into a hospital managed by the town council. From 1554-1847, part of the east wing was used as a Cathedral school. The monastery is Denmark's oldest social institution and still has homes for the elderly to this very day. Though the church was demolished in the 17th century, the rest of the monastery still stands - as one of the best preserved mediaeval monasteries in Denmark. It is also considered the best preserved monastery of the Order of the Holy Ghost north of the Alps.

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