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Definition of Monasteries

Monasteries
Monastery Mon"as*te*ry, n.; pl. Monasteries. [L. monasterium, Gr. ?, fr. ? a solitary, a monk, fr. ? to be alone, live in solitude, fr. ? alone. Cf. Minister.] A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females. Syn: Convent; abbey; priory. See Cloister.

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- regarding medieval monasteries. Monastery Italy Monasteries Search – UOC Synod Commission for Monasteries Google-map – UOC Synod Commission for Monasteries...
- The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes...
- complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, viewed locally as second in importance only to Mount Athos. Twenty-four monasteries were established atop the giant...
- Lukovo, Rsovci, Savina, in Serbia, and Ostrog monastery, in Montenegro. List of Russian Orthodox monasteries "Манастири - АРХИЕПИСКОПИЈА". 2020-01-03. Archived...
- Sera Monastery in Lhasa Drepung Monastery in Lhasa Tashilhunpo in Shigatse List Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh Himalayan monasteries "Tibetan...
- are made up of monasteries that share the same lineage. For instance the American-C****inese congregation included the 22 monasteries descended from Boniface...
- Orthodox monasteries had special status in Middle Ages. Today, the Serbian Orthodox Church has two stauropegic monasteries: Patriarchal Monastery of Peć...
- establishment of double monasteries became po****r after St. Columb**** and sprang up in Gaul and in Anglo-Saxon England. Double monasteries were forbidden by...
- Lists of monasteries cover monasteries, buildings or complexes of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns...
- the peninsula. The community includes 20 monasteries and the settlements on which they depend. The monasteries house around 2,000 Eastern Orthodox monks...