Benedictine monastery in the Grave – the monastery complex, built in the eleventh century by Casimir I. he currently serves as the parish Church of St. John the Apostle. In January 2014, the monastery went to the monastic order of the Capuchins.

The Benedictines came to the Grave in the second half of the eleventh century from the Rhineland. Twenty-three villages in the vicinity of Burial were involved in economic and social life of the monastery. The construction of the Church and monastery buildings began immediately after the arrival of the monks. The hill on which the monastery was built was surrounded by a stone wall. In the fifteenth century the monastery was reconstructed in the Gothic style.

In subsequent centuries the monastery had lost its political influence, the financial situation became difficult, the building gradually fell into disrepair. And only in the eighteenth century the Benedictines began to flourish again. In 1760, the monastery complex was rebuilt in the Baroque style.

In 1773, after the partition of Poland, Burial was under the rule of Prussia. The new government tightly controlled the activities of the monastery, and in 1833, the monastery was completely closed. After 1880, the building housed a hospital, the Church was still working. During the Second world war the monastery was opened to the pow camp, a prison for Jewish women and hospital.

Currently of special interest in the monastery is the Church of St. John the theologian. This Baroque Church with an atrium in the neo-Baroque style, was built in 1913. The interior of the monastery and the Church dates from the period of reconstruction in the eighteenth century. The main altar is made in the Rococo style, it is decorated with a painting of the seventeenth century. Organ located in the choir, dates from the first half of the seventeenth century. In the Church there is an underground crypt is one of the best preserved tombs in Poland.