monastery

Built complexes for religious retirement or seclusion from the world for monks, who are people living a celibate life according to the rule of a particular religious order and adhering to vows, especially of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

View from courtyard of the cloister (Kreuzgang), looking northeast, showing the Fountain House (left) and east cloister gallery (right). Maulbronn Monastery, Germany. Image credit: Holly Hayes

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Go Historic ID
150
Getty AAT ID
300000641
Term Type
site type (non-building)