Kristo Buase Monastery, Tanoboase

Kristo Buase Monastery is a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery of the Subiaco-Cassinese Congregation at Tanoboase, in the Bono East Region of Ghana. It was founded in 1989 at the request of the then Bishop of Sunyani, Most Rev. James Kwadwo Owusu, as a joint foundation of three British monasteries: Prinknash Abbey in Gloucester, Pluscarden Abbey in Scotland and Ramsgate Abbey in Kent. The Diocese of Techiman records that the community sits between the villages of Tuobodom and Tanoboase in the Techiman North District, about 15 km north of Techiman on the Techiman-Tamale main road, with the entrance roughly 250 m south of the new toll booth. In August 2016 the monastery became a Priory sui juris and elected its first Conventual Prior; the community numbers around nine to eleven monks.

It is a contemplative house whose primary function is prayer, supported by manual labour. The monks work a cashew farm and gardens and produce moringa products, jams, chutneys and wine, sold alongside Swedish Bitters, incense, coffee, books and postcards in the monastery shop. The grounds also hold a monastic church with public prayer and Sunday Mass, a library of more than 7,000 books, and a rock shelter.

For visitors, the monastery offers a guesthouse for retreats and quiet reflection: five single rooms with private showers, shared toilets and a private verandah backing onto the garden. Meals are taken with the monks in the refectory — breakfast is self-service between 7.15 and 8.00 a.m., dinner at 12.45 and supper at 6.30 p.m. There are no televisions, no bar and no special menus. Sunday Mass is at 0930 and is open to all.

The monastery does not charge for accommodation or meals; the suggested donation is 150 Ghana Cedis per day full board, or 100 Ghana Cedis for Catholic priests and religious. No entrance fee is charged for the monastery itself. The main gate is locked at 6.30 p.m. and not opened again until dawn, and the monks retire at 8.30 p.m. No formal visitor opening hours are published by the monastery; a third-party guide's claim of daily 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. opening is unverified against the operator, so travellers should confirm before setting out. The community describes itself as a staging point for travellers heading to Tamale and northern Ghana, and as a base for nearby sites including the Tano Boase Sacred Grove and Bono Manso.