About us.
Established in 1957, Asirvanam Benedictine Retreat Centre in Kengeri, Bangalore, offers guided retreats for priests, nuns, seminarians, and laypeople. Set within a serene 100-acre monastery, its peaceful environment and monks’ Gregorian chants enhance spiritual reflection. With well-furnished facilities, the center provides a sacred space for personal and group retreats. Early bookings are recommended.
Asirvanam Benedictine Monastery
Known for their dedicated way of life, monks have down through the centuries shown, by their motivated and self-effacing involvement in whatever sort of work entrusted to them, that God is to be glorified through all their talents and skills, be it manual or intellectual.
We have been able to extend the traditional hospitality of Benedictines to many priests and religious and the faithful as well as to the people of other religions in India. The Retreat-house is now fairly well-equipped with a chapel, a conference-hall, a dining-hall and 60 rooms to welcome persons to taste the solitude of the place.
Mindful of ‘unless the Lord builds the house, in vain do its builder’s labour,’ and of offering our widow’s mite to the highly demanding challenge of witnessing to the values of monastic life in the context of a fast changing world with all its glories and failures, contradictions and possibilities, it is the deep hope of Asirvanam monks to move forward ‘with our heart expanding as we run the way of God’s commandments with unspeakable sweetness of love’. (Prologue, Rule of St. Benedict)5