Monastery · Italy · Partial ruin
Abbey of Thelema
Abbazia di Thélema
The Abbey of Thelema is a small villa in Cefalù, Sicily, rented and renamed by occultist Aleister Crowley in 1920 as a communal temple and school of Thelema. Crowley and a small group of adherents lived and practiced there until the early 1920s; the house contained murals painted by Crowley and later fell into disuse. The building remains standing but in poor, partially ruined condition.
First raised
1920
Its prime
1922
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1922
What Abbey of Thelema looked like in its prime.
Low, single-storey Mediterranean villa of simple rectangular plan, white roughcast stucco walls rising from a shallow stone plinth and topped by a low-pitched roof of overlapping terracotta tiles. The plain façade is punctured by small rectangular windows with timber louvered shutters—one window is boarded—and a visible vertical hairline crack runs down the plaster. Exterior surfaces show patched weathering and streaks; the house sits amid dense, overgrown Mediterranean scrub and tall grasses pressed against the walls.
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