Religious Practice → Monasteries
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A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds. A monastery complex typically comprises a number of buildings which include a church, dormitory, cloister, refectory, library, balneary and infirmary and outlying granges. Depending on the location, the monastic order and the occupation of its inhabitants, the complex may also include a wide range of buildings that facilitate self-sufficiency and service to the community. These may include a hospice, a school, and a range of agricultural and manufacturing buildings such as a barn, a forge, or a brewery.
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Organizations relating to Monasteries
International Burmese Monks Organization
Sisters of Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir / Le Mans, France / Est. 1806
Soeurs de Saint-Joseph de Viviers / Aubenas, France
Kongregation der Diennerinnen des Heiligstens Herzens Jesu / Vienna, Austria
Missionaries of the Merciful Love of the Heart of Jesus / Queluz, Portugal / Est. 1992
Soeurs de la Sainte-Famille du Sacré-Coeur / Rome, Italy
Monaci della Regola Studita / Rome, Italy / Est. 1965
Soeurs de la Sainte-Famille / Amiens, France / Est. 1797
Franciscaines Missionnaires de Notre-Dame / Paris, France / Est. 1854
Soeurs du Bon Sauveur / Bretteville-Odon, France / Est. 1730
Sisters of St Thomas of Villanova / Neuilly-sur-Seine, France / Est. 1661
Religiosas de Maria Inmaculada / Rome, Italy
Filii Caritatis / Rome, Italy / Est. 1918
Suore di Cristo - Unione Mysterium Christi / Paris, France / Est. 1976
Sisters of the Love of God / Madrid, Spain / Est. 1864
Secular Third Order of Our Lady of Mercy / Le Roy NY, USA / Est. 1218
Ancelle della Divina Misericordia / Valenzano, Italy / Est. 1950
Soeurs Franciscaines Missionnaires du Coeur Immaculé de Marie d'Egypte / Rome, Italy / Est. 1868
Soeurs Augustines / Meaux, France / Est. 1264
Brigittine Monks / Amity OR, USA / Est. 1976
Servantes de l'Agneau de Dieu / Brest, France / Est. 1945
Piccola Opera della Redenzione / Visciano, Italy / Est. 1954
Secular Augustinians / Rome, Italy / Est. 1399
Servites de Marie / Groslay, France / Est. 1845
Union of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary / Kildare, Ireland / Est. 1775
Soeurs de l'Immaculée-Conception de Notre-Dame de Lourdes / Rome, Italy / Est. 1863
Corpus Christi Carmelite Sisters / Tunapuna, Trinidad-Tobago / Est. 1908
Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel / Rome, Italy / Est. 1550
Order of the Basilians of St Macrina / Mezzoiuso, Italy
Dominicaines de Sainte-Marie des Tourelles / Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers, France
Cistercian Nuns / Rome, Italy / Est. 1098
Asociación Panamericana Oblatos Diocesanos / Buenos Aires, Argentina
Congrégation Pie IX de l'Immaculée-Conception / Annecy, France / Est. 1855
Congregation of the Immaculate Conception / Madurai, India / Est. 1899
Congrégation des Soeurs des Saints-Coeurs de Jésus et de Marie / Beirut, Lebanon / Est. 1874
Sisters of the Destitute / Aluva, India / Est. 1927
Ordre de la Compagnie de Marie Notre-Dame / Rome, Italy / Est. 1607
Hermanas del Santo Angel de la Guarda / Madrid, Spain
Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Third Order of Saint Francis / Garfield Heights OH, USA
Soeurs de la Miséricorde de Moissac / Moissac, France / Est. 1804
Soeurs de la Sainte-Famille de Villefranche-de-Rouergue / Montauban, France / Est. 1816
Society of St Teresa of Jesus / Covington LA, USA / Est. 1876
Apostles of the Sacred Heart / Milan, Italy / Est. 1919
Dominicans of the Presentation / Rome, Italy
Sisters of the Child Jesus, Puy / Paris, France / Est. 1667
Contemplatives Passionistes / Est. 1771
Soeurs de l'Adoration du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus / Rome, Italy / Est. 1820
Suore Francescane Missionarie del Sacro Cuore / Rome, Italy
Filles de Notre-Dame d'Afrique / Toulouse, France / Est. 1891
Congregazione di Gesù Sacerdote / Trento, Italy / Est. 1926
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