Monastery, Ireland | MCU: Location Scout

Nighttime view of front facade of Irish Monastery.

There was a monastery, and the monks gave me a nice, warm place to sleep, and some soup.

Establishing Shot

The dark front entrance of the Monastery is some stock footage, not of an Irish church, but of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in Missouri.

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Interiors

The interiors of the monastery were initial planned for a real location, but due to the stunts needed for this sequence a set was built on a soundstage instead, according to the Agents of SHIELD Season One Declassified book.

  • Dark interior of Irish Monastery.
  • Professor Randolph and SHIELD Agents in dark interior of Irish Monastery.
  • Bodies strewn on floor in dark interior of Irish Monastery.

Transitional Shot – Church Silhouette

The silhouette of the church, supposedly representing the Irish Monastery, is actually stock footage of a church in Prague, called St Vitus Cathedral.

  • Silhouette of church spires against light skies.

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(Agents of SHIELD S01E08, 2013)