Text transcribed from caption: GARDEN WHERE NUNS SPENT HOURS OF MEDITATION #1090 Inside these high tiled walls, nuns for 80 years spent hours of daily meditation while throngs passed up and down the street outside unaware of the existence of the religious community. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (STH-MEX-LM-11-30-5)

Starr-Hunt, Jack. (photographer)

1945

still image

negatives

negative : black-and-white ; 5 x 7 inches

Convento de Santa Mónica (Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico)
Religious News Service--Archives.

Convents--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza.
Church and state--Mexico--History--20th century.
Museums--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza.
Decolonization--Mexico.
Monastic and religious life of women--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza.
Courtyard gardens--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza.

Mexico
Puebla de Zaragoza.
20th century.
Mexico.
Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico)
North and Central America--Mexico--Puebla--Puebla de Zaragoza

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. 1090; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_1090

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