Charterhouse of the Transfiguration

The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration is located in Vermont, in the United States, on the western slope of Mount Equinox, in the diocese of Burlington. It is the first foundation of the Carthusian order outside of Europe, and one of two English-speaking charterhouses in the world, along with Parkminster in England.

In 1950, two Carthusian monks from Spain came to explore the possibility of establishing a foundation. A first group lived for ten years in Whitingham, then the community settled in 1960 on land donated by J. G. Davidson and his wife. The monastery, completed in 1970 by architect Victor Christ-Janer, is built from unpolished Barre granite slabs; it has ten brothers' cells and eighteen fathers' hermitages. The church was consecrated on August 22, 1972.

The community, of many nationalities, lives in an isolation that the order itself describes as unique. It draws its resources from the toll road on Mount Equinox, inherited from its donor, from hydroelectric production, and from donations.