Beit Benedict (House of Benedict) Peace Academy is the response to the suffering in the Holy Land, particularly of the Christians, by our German-speaking community of Benedictine monks. Our community, numbering 23 members from several nations, includes the Dormition Abbey on Mount Sion in Jerusalem, a dependent priory in Tabgha, Galilee, and a house in Hildesheim, Germany. 
 
During our 102 year history in the Holy Land, our monastic community has experienced exile, the occupation and destruction of our abbey, four wars, and two intifadas, all the while striving to remain a sanctuary of reverence and respect. Our stability and hospitality has blessed us with a unique bond of trust among diverse religious and secular groups. Above all, this stability ameliorates the sense of abandonment experienced by Christians in the Holy Land.
 
Our location has served over the years as a neutral place for reconciliation, ecumenical meetings, inter religious encounters and peace negotiations. In a land so divided and torn by conflict, Beit Benedict Peace Academy provides a neutral space on holy ground that is found no where else in Jerusalem. Building the peace academy adjacent to the traditional location of the Last Supper, Pentecost, the Jerusalem Council and the Assumption of Mary, situates the prayer and work of the Church today firmly on her historical and spiritual foundations.
 
Our community offers to people diverse in creed, culture and tradition an opportunity to be guided in the path of reconciliation. At the request those seeking peace we are building Beit Benedict Peace Academy.
 
We are grateful to Abbot Dismas Kalcic O.S.B., and the monks of St.Procopius Abbey, in Lisle, Illinois who established the means for financial support for Beit Benedict Peace Academy to be raised in the United States.

Dormition Abbey

St. Procopius Abbey