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The monastery is completely surrounded by miles of undisturbed wilderness amidst the Chama Canyon wilderness area 75 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico . It is accessible by a 13 mile dirt road off of US route 84. The monastery was founded in 1964 by a monk of Mount Savior Monastery in New York State, Fr. Aelred Wall OSB. The original monastery was designed by George Nakashima , the famous Japanese-American architect and woodworker. The chapel is renowned for its beauty and was praised by Thomas Merton as the most perfect monastic chapel he had ever visited. Christ in the Desert follows the Benedictine life without an external apostolate. It has a guesthouse in which men and women can stay and join the monks in the chapel to share in the monastic Divine Office and in the Mass. In addition to maintaining the guesthouse, the monks manage a giftshop of books and religious items, which is accessible online and by mail order. The monks also work in agriculture, crafts, computer work and maintenance of the grounds and facilities. Christ in the Desert has three dependent monasteries. In Mexico, La Soledad near San Miguel de Allende, and St. Mary and All the Saints, in Xalapa. In Chicago USA, Holy Cross Monastery. These monasteries also observe the Benedictine life with no apostolate other than a guesthouse. The monastery maintains one of the largest private Solar Power systems in the US, which provides its only source of electricity. The monastery is comprised of men from many nations. English is the common language of the house. INTERNET PIONEERS: THE SCRIPTORIUM @ CHRISTDESERT In 1995 the monastery published a web site -- www.christdesert.org -- which gained international fame and became one of the world's most visited web sites in the years 1995-1997. Stories about the monks and their web scriptorium appeared on page one of the Sunday New York Times, led a cover story in Time Magazine, filled a full color double page spread in USA Today, were featured on CNN International, CBS Sunday Morning, ABC World News Tonight and Brazil's Fantastico, and made the front page of numerous publications worldwide via feature stories distributed via the AP wire (in 1995) and the NY Times wire (in 1996). The monastery's web scriptorium led to the foundation of an independent research project called NextScribe . NextScribe conducts research in Computer Supported Spiritual Development (CSSD) with a particular emphasis on remaking lay spiritual community according to the wisdom of the tradition of St. Benedict. EXTERNAL LINKS
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