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Detailed explanation-1: -A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds.

Detailed explanation-2: -Monasteries have been a part of many religions, including: Buddhism, Daoism, Judaism, and Christianity. Lao Zi created a personal monastery by living in isolation. The first monastic devotees were hermits, which means that they were individual religious followers who lived in total isolation from all other people.

Detailed explanation-3: -A monastery is the building where monks live while they’re practicing their religion. Some monasteries are occupied by hundreds of monks, and sometimes only one monk lives there all alone.