San Maurizio at the Maggiore Monastery

San Maurizio at the Maggiore Monastery is a congregation in Milan, northern Italy. It was initially appended to the most vital female religious community of the Benedictines in the city, Monastero Maggiore, which is presently being used as the Civic Archeological Museum. The congregation today is utilized each Sunday from October to June to celebrate in the Byzantine Rite, in Greek as per the Italo-Albanian tradition. It is likewise utilized as show hall. The complex was established in Lombard times, somewhat re-utilizing antiquated Roman structures.

Of these there remain a polygonal pinnacle, a relic of the antiquated Maximian dividers, and a starting point, initially part of the lost Hippodrome and later received as the congregation's ringer tower. The religious community is presently home to Milan's Archeological Museum. The development started in 1503 under outline of Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono in a joint effort with Giovanni Antonio Amadeo. The structure was done fifteen years after the fact by Cristoforo Solari, separated into two sections one for the devoted, one for the nuns. Until 1794 the last were unequivocally prohibited to cross the isolating divider. Tourists come here from all over the world with their family members and friends to visit this place.