The concept of Christian monasteries and their divisions

Abstract

Monasteries are one of the most important centers of places of worship for the Christians, and they spread widely in Iraq and the Arab countries. These monasteries are distinguished by the presence of monks, nuns, or hermits who live and manage them, and monasteries are often far from cities and crowded places, and they differ in their locations, some of which are at the tops of the mountains and some are on the banks of rivers. The Christians paid great attention to the buildings and architecture of the monasteries, as they paid attention to the annexes that were added to the monasteries to perform the service aspects for visitors to the monasteries, as they were not without guest houses that were visited by visitors, and some rooms that were called cells inhabited by a number of monks, and there is also a church to perform Prayer, in addition to the fact that the monasteries were not without libraries to store the religious, literary and scientific literature, from which the monks drew a lot of information.

Keywords

• monasteries
• christian
• concept