Belmont Abbey, North Carolina

Belmont Abbey is a Catholic Benedictine monastery and in Belmont, North Carolina. Home to the Abbey Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, the abbey was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is administered by the American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation and the abbey monks administer Belmont Abbey College.

Pope Leo XIII officially declared the monastery an abbey on December 19, 1884. Pope Pius XII declared Mary Help of Christians its patroness via his decree Perfugium Rebus on December 5, 1957. Pope John Paul II raised the shrine to the status of minor basilica via the pontifical decree Sacras Ædes on July 27, 1998.