Dominican monastery, Vienna, Dominican monastery in Inner Stadt, Vienna, Austria.

The Dominican monastery stands at Postgasse near the Dominikanerbastei in Vienna's Inner Stadt, built around a cloister where medieval building fragments were uncovered and restored between 1996 and 1998. Its Baroque church, begun in 1631, replaced an earlier church whose choir had been consecrated in 1302. The wing toward Wollzeile was demolished in 1937 and replaced by the Dominikanerhof, designed by Kurt Klaudy, Anton Liebe and Georg Lippert.

The monastery was founded in 1226 by Duke Leopold VI of Austria and consecrated in 1237 after construction was completed. In 1302 the new choir of the church was consecrated by the Dominican cardinal Nikolaus Boccasini, later Pope Benedict XI. During the Turkish siege of 1529 the church served as a quarry for reinforcing the adjacent fortification walls. Construction of a new Baroque church began in 1631, and the convent took its present form in the 17th century.

The monastery hosts lectures, exhibitions, and concerts that keep it alive as a place for theological study and learning. Its spaces serve the Dominican community's ongoing religious and scholarly work.

The monastery sits near Stephansplatz and is easy to reach on foot from the city center. Guided tours are available to learn about the building's design and the community living there.

In 1986 Austria's postal service issued a 7.5-schilling definitive stamp showing the Dominican monastery, part of a series on the country's abbeys and monasteries. The cloister also holds medieval building fragments uncovered and restored between 1996 and 1998.