abbey

thumb|right|The cloister of [[Sénanque Abbey, Provence]] alt=|thumb|Church of the former Bath Abbey, [[Somerset]] thumb|right|An interior of the Bridgettine's [[Nådendal Abbey, a medieval Catholic monastery in Naantali, Finland]] An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian or Buddhist monks and nuns.

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An abbey is a monastery governed by an abbot or abbess where members of a religious order live and work together. Abbeys consist of buildings and land that house Christian or Buddhist monks and nuns and provide space for their religious activities and daily life.

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Monastic origins of the abbey
Ascetics and anchorites
Laurae and Coenobia
Great Lavra, Mount Athos
Adoption of the Roman villa plan
Abbey of St Gall
Benedictine abbeys in England
Westminster Abbey
St Mary's Abbey, York
Reforms at the Abbey of Cluny
British Cluniac houses
Augustinian abbeys
Premonstratensians (Norbertians)
Cistercian abbeys
Copts
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The concept of the abbey has developed over many centuries from the early monastic ways of religious men and women where they would live isolated from the lay community about them. Religious life in an abbey may be monastic. An abbey may be the home of an enclosed religious order or may be open to visitors. The layout of the church and associated buildings of an abbey often follows a set plan determined by the founding religious order.