The Abbey of St. Dominic of Silos ( Spanish: Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos) is a Benedictine abbey in the municipality of Santo Domingo de Silos in the southern part of the province of Burgos , located in northern Spain. The abbey is named after St. Dominic of Silos, who lived in the XI century.
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History
The abbey belongs to the Visigothic period of the 7th century . In the X century, the abbey was called San Sebastian de Silos (the abbey of St. Sebastian of Silos), and it acquired its current name when Fernando the Great, king of Castile and Leon, commissioned Saint Dominic to reconstruct the abbey. The abbot designed a church with a central nave, with two side chapels and five chapels adjacent to the apse and transept. When St. Dominic died in 1073, work on the abbey was handed over to Father Superior Fortinius, who lived to see the completion of construction work. The church was subsequently rebuilt in the neoclassical style by the architect Ventura Rodríguez .
In 1835, the abbey, along with other monasteries in Spain, was closed. Benedictine monks from Solem in France revived him in 1880 .