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Dunfermline Abbey

Dunfermline, Scotland, Great Britain
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About Dunfermline Abbey

Dunfermline Abbey is a church of Scotland Parish Church in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The priest since 2012 is the Reverend Mary Ann R. Rennie. The congregation involves the site of the old chancel and transepts of an expansive medieval Benedictine convent, which was sacked in 1560 amid the Scottish Reformation and allowed to fall into deterioration. Some portion of the old nunnery church proceeded being used around then and a few sections of the monastery foundation still remain. Dunfermline Abbey is one of Scotland's most imperative social destinations.

The Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Trinity and St Margaret, was established in 1128 by King David I of Scotland, yet the ascetic foundation depended on a before establishment going back to the rule of his dad King Mael Coluim macintosh Donnchada, i.e., "Malcolm III" or "Malcolm Canmore" regnat 1058-93, and his ruler, St Margaret of Scotland. At its head was the Abbot of Dunfermline, the first was Geoffrey of Canterbury, previous Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, the Kent religious community that most likely provided Dunfermline's first priests. At the pinnacle of its capacity it controlled four burghs, three courts of loftiness, and an extensive arrangement of grounds from Moray in the north south to Berwickshire.

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