Images of Monks Mound

Air View of Monks' Mound, Cahokia Mounds State Park. This mound, largest of the entire group, has a base area of sixteen acres, and is 100 feet in height.

This photograph located in the Illinois State Historical Society Transactions for the year 1936.
Article: THE STATE PARKS AND ILLINOIS HISTORY, by Robert Kingery, pages 63-67.


Monks Mound photographed from the south, southeast, west, or northeast; 1892.

A drawing of the chapel located on Monks Mound.