monastery
IPA: mˈɑnʌstɛri
noun
- A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
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Examples of "monastery" in Sentences
- The monastery area is to the right of the church.
- He endowed the monastery with lands and restored the church.
- He built the church, the monastery, the sacristy, and the refectory.
- At that time the village church served as a granary of the monastery.
- The church and the monastery did not avoid the devastations of history.
- He helped decorate the cupola of the Church in the Carthusian monastery.
- The monastery ranks eighth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
- His tomb is in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
- The monastery ranks sixteenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
- The main church of the monastery was erected in the middle of the 19th century.
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