abbey
C1054
concept
An abbey is a religious complex of buildings, typically housing a community of monks or nuns, centered around worship, communal living, and spiritual practice under an abbot or abbess.
Aliases (13)
- monastic community ×17
- monastery ×12
- Cathedral ×10
- convent ×7
- Benedictine monastery ×6
- medieval abbey ×3
- medieval structure ×2
- monastic order ×2
- Benedictine abbey ×1
- abbey church ×1
- former Premonstratensian abbey ×1
- monastery complex ×1
- royal peculiar ×1
Instances (68)
- Inchcolm ("medieval abbey")
- Gloucester Cathedral ("Cathedral")
- Knights Hospitaller ("monastic order")
- Dunfermline Abbey
- St. Nicholas Anapausas Monastery ("monastery")
- Basilica and Convent of San Francisco ("convent")
- Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette ("convent")
- Westminster Abbey, London ("royal peculiar")
- Auxerre, France ("Benedictine abbey")
- Jerónimos Monastery ("monastery")
- Basilica of Saint-Denis ("abbey church")
- St. Stephen Monastery ("monastic community")
- Durham Cathedral ("Cathedral")
- Canterbury Cathedral ("Cathedral")
- Cluny Abbey ("Benedictine monastery")
- Subiaco Abbey ("Benedictine monastery")
- York Minster ("Cathedral")
- Melrose Abbey ("medieval abbey")
- Monte Cassino Abbey ("Benedictine monastery")
- Great Lavra ("monastery")
- Holy Mountain ("monastic community")
- Vatopedi Monastery ("monastic community")
- Iviron Monastery ("monastic community")
- St. Paul Monastery ("monastic community")
- Monastery of Yuste ("monastery")
- Simonopetra Monastery ("monastic community")
- Xenophontos Monastery ("monastic community")
- El Escorial ("monastery")
- Esphigmenou Monastery ("monastic community")
- Bagrati Cathedral ("Cathedral")
- Pantokratoros Monastery ("monastic community")
- Philotheou Monastery ("monastic community")
- Karakallou Monastery ("monastic community")
- Dochiariou Monastery ("monastic community")
- Konstamonitou Monastery ("monastic community")
- Xeropotamou Monastery ("monastic community")
- Gregoriou Monastery ("monastic community")
- Benedictines ("monastic order")
- Marham ("former Premonstratensian abbey")
- Mount Athos ("monastic community")
- Whitby Abbey ("Benedictine monastery")
- Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Kolkata ("convent")
- Mater Ecclesiae Monastery ("monastery")
- Sangha ("monastic community")
- Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes ("monastery")
- Holyrood Abbey ("medieval abbey")
- Chapter House ("medieval structure")
- Jedburgh Abbey
- Shrewsbury Abbey ("Benedictine monastery")
- St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong ("Cathedral")
- Milan Cathedral ("Cathedral")
- Dominican convent on Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris ("convent")
- Llandaff Cathedral ("Cathedral")
- Monastery of Santa Cruz ("monastery")
- Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha ("monastery")
- Batalha Monastery ("monastery")
- Selby
- Fossanova Abbey
- Port-Royal-des-Champs ("monastery")
- Andechs Abbey ("Benedictine monastery")
- Svetitskhoveli Cathedral ("Cathedral")
- Batalha, Portugal ("monastery")
- Basilica and Convent of Santo Domingo ("convent")
- Basilica and Convent of La Merced ("convent")
- Stockholm Cathedral ("Cathedral")
- Crane over the Motława ("medieval structure")