Monastery
An enclosed group of buildings where a religious community both lives and worships, planned around a cloister with the daily offices setting the circulation.
Also called abbey, priory, convent.
How it connects
Not linked to any other term yet.
Beside it in Building type: House, Barn, Apartment, Warehouse, Factory, Mill, Church, Castle, Hotel, Restaurant, Bar, Cafe, Spa, Nightclub, Gallery, Museum, Library, Theatre, Pavilion, Office, Shop, Showroom, School, Hospital, Clinic, Civic Building, Gym, Stadium and Station.
In other taxonomies
- monasteries (built complexes)Getty AAT, 300000641nearly the same
- Convents and monasteriesUniclass, Co_45_10_15theirs is wider
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
30 terms, House to Station
Record
NOT parented to church, though it contains one. The defining programme is residential and enclosed; a monastery is not a kind of church any more than a college is a kind of library.
- Also called
- abbey · priory · convent
- Provenance
- authored@instruments/taxonomy ADR 0001
For machines
Permanent address
/id/typology/monasteryKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300000641 | monasteries (built complexes) | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | Co_45_10_15 | Convents and monasteries | theirs is wider |