Rahibe manastırı,keşişler,rahibeler,frerler veyadin kardeşlerden oluşan kapalı bir topluluktur. Manastır, aynı zamanda cemaat tarafından kullanılan bina anlamına da gelir.
Terim özellikleKatolik Kilisesi,Lütercilik kiliseleri veAnglikan Topluluğu tarafından kullanılmaktadır.[1]
Finally, irrespective of religious beliefs, convents remained a possible model for women—Catholic as well as Protestant—to pursue. In Protestant Germany, forms of female religious associative life did not die out, but instead survived in the shape of Protestant convents. These could be governed by a Lutheran abbess, and inhabited by Lutheran nuns in religious habits who claimed membership of a monastic order, paradoxical though this may seem.
