After numerous restorations and enlargements during the sixteenth century, it gradually became one of the most popular and wealthiest monasteries in Ukraine.

These orchards made the monastery wealthy and famous.

The Nilow Monastery was one of the largest and wealthiest monasteries in the Russian Empire.

It was to become one of the most influential and wealthiest monasteries in Southern Germany.

St. Catherine's has long been a very wealthy and influential monastery, founding schools in Greece and around the Orthodox world.

After the death of the founder in 1170, Phagmodru evolved into a large and wealthy monastery which was governed by members of the Lang family.

It developed into the most prominent and wealthy monastery in Denmark.

In short, Hindu temples began to take on the shape of wealthy Buddhist monasteries.

In the 15th and 16th century, it rivaled the Trinity as the most authoritative and wealthy monastery in Russia.

Over the centuries, the monastery amassed substantial riches and became one of the wealthiest monasteries in the Aegean.