Jeronimos monastery - choir area

The monks would spend 7 hours in the church a day in prayer and singing. this area received the worst damage from the 1755 earthquake. the rows of seats and carvings were the first Flemish and Italian renaissance Carvings in Portugal. the wood was oak and Chestnut. the stall backs have carvings of the apostles and the Doctors of the church. Each seat had a projection or Misierecorid to support the monk. --sign in the church

we saw these same projections last year in Scotland when we visited the cathedral in Dunblane.

-Yellow rosary window

-very dark wood that is carved for monks to sit while singing

-pic from the choir down into the churchOkumaya devam et