Adergas monastery, Dominican monastery in Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia

Adergas monastery is a former Dominican convent on the northern edge of Adergas, in a small basin below the wooded slope of Štefanja Gora. Its Baroque church of the Annunciation, begun in 1732 to plans by Gregor Maček and continued from 1766 by Candido Zulliani, was consecrated in 1771. Only the eastern wing of the convent was ever finished; it now holds flats, retreat rooms and the parish office.

The monastery was founded in 1238 by three brothers of the von Stein family and confirmed by Berthold of Andechs, Patriarch of Aquileia; nuns from Vienna's Maria-Magdalena convent settled it. Turkish raids plundered and burned it in 1471 and again two years later. In 1533 Emperor Ferdinand I gave the nuns Schloss Frauenstein above the monastery for safety, and Joseph II dissolved the house in 1782.

The Romanesque statue of Mary in the church is carved from poplar wood and was probably a gift from the Patriarch of Aquileia. The church also holds seven altarpieces by Martin Johann Schmidt, the Kremser Schmidt, which locals walled up at night during World War II to prevent their removal to Germany.

The former monastery is at the northern edge of Adergas, in a small basin below the wooded slope of Štefanja Gora. The preserved east wing now holds flats, the parish office and rooms for spiritual exercises and meetings; the church serves as the parish church. The monastery was returned to the Church in 1993.

The wooden monastery building in the damp valley was demolished at the start of the 18th century and rebuilt in stone by 1748; the architect Gregor Maček died in 1745 before the work was finished, and Candido Zulliani continued it. The church was consecrated in 1771 by Rudolf Joseph von Edling, then auxiliary bishop and later Prince-Archbishop of Gorizia.