St. Dominic's Monastery, Linden, United States

What it is

Cloistered Dominican nuns on Blue Mountain in the Shenandoah Valley, in the Diocese of Arlington. They moved in 2008 into a monastery that was only partly built, and have used their library as a chapel ever since.

What it needs

A capital campaign is paying for a permanent public chapel and nuns' choir and for finishing the parts of the monastery left incomplete or temporarily repurposed in 2008. The Phase II construction contract was signed in 2025, Bishop Burbidge broke ground on 19 July 2025, and the chapel was under construction in autumn 2026. The monastery's website still says funds are needed to ensure the project is fully funded, and the Fall 2026 newsletter invites memorial gifts to the Chapel building fund.

Before you act. No current target, total raised or remaining gap is published on the monastery's pages, so the size of the shortfall is unknown. An annual Laetare Benefit dinner and auction, next on 7 March 2027, also supports the nuns.

Sources

Last checked 9 November 2026. Responsible body: St. Dominic's Monastery (Capital Campaign).

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