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monasteries 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 whic ...

, buildings or complexes of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). The lists are organized by country or territory, by denomination, by order and by form.

By country or territory

* Monasteries in Armenia *

Monasteries in Australia 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 whic ...

* Monasteries in Austria * Monasteries in Belgium * Monasteries in Denmark *

Monasteries in England 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 ...

* Monasteries in Estonia * Monasteries in Finland *

Monasteries in France 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 whic ...

* Monasteries in Germany * Greece :* Monasteries in Meteora * Monasteries in Hungary *

Monasteries in Ireland 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 whic ...

* Monasteries in Malta * Monasteries in Norway * Monasteries in Romania :*

Monasteries in Bucharest 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 ...

* Monasteries in Russia *

Monasteries in Scotland List of monastic houses in Scotland is a catalogue of the abbeys, priories, friaries and other monastic religious houses of Scotland. In this article alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monast ...

* Monasteries in Serbia :*

Monasteries on Fruška Gora A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in Cenobitic monasticism, communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place res ...

Monasteries in Spain Monasteries in Spain have a rich artistic and cultural tradition, and serve as testament to Spain's religious history and political-military history, from the Visigothic Period to the Middle Ages. The monasteries played an important role in the ...

Monasteries in Madrid The following compilation of convents and monasteries in the city of Madrid includes monasteries past and present in Madrid, Spain, divided by the reign in which they were founded. The list gives a sense of how large the monastic communities gre ...

* Monasteries in Sweden * Monasteries in Switzerland * Monasteries in Syria * Monasteries in Tibet * Monasteries in the United States * Monasteries in Wales

By denomination

Christian monasteries

Orthodox monasteries * List of Romanian Orthodox monasteries *

List of Russian Orthodox monasteries A * Alexander Nevsky Lavra * Alexander-Svirsky Monastery * Alexeevsky Monastery * Antonievo-Siysky Monastery * Arkazhsky Monastery * Ascension Convent B * Bogoyavlensky Monastery (Kostroma) * Bogoyavlensky Monastery (Uglich) * Borisoglebsky Mo ...

List of Serbian Orthodox monasteries This is a list of Serbian Orthodox Christian monasteries in Serbia and near areas (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Kosovo), also Romania, Hungary, Greece, Germany, United States of America, Canada, and Australia ...

List of monasteries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) {{TOC-right The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an Eastern Orthodox religious body in Ukraine, with 251 monasteries and convents in its various dioceses. Autonomous Republic of Crimea There are 22 monasteries one of them havi ...

Buddhist monasteries

List of Tibetan monasteries This is the list of Tibetan monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism. Gallery File:A grand view of Samye.jpg, Samye Monastery in Dranang File:Ganden monastery.jpg, Ganden Monastery in Lhasa with some ruins visible from destruction by the Communist Chi ...

By order

List of Carthusian monasteries This is a list of Carthusian monasteries, or charterhouses, containing both extant and dissolved Monastery, monasteries of the Carthusians (also known as the Order of Saint Bruno) for monks and nuns, arranged by location under their present count ...

List of Cistercian monasteries The Cistercians are a Catholic religious order of enclosed monks and nuns formed in 1098, originating from Cîteaux Abbey. Their monasteries spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, but many were closed during the Protestant Reformation, ...

By form