Community following religious life rules.

Traditional religious clothing for monks.

The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks around Mount Athos, Greece, who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty within Greece and the European Union, as well as the combined rights of a decentralized administration, a region and a municipality, with a territory encompassing the distal part of the Athos peninsula including Mount Athos.

A cell is a small room used by a hermit, monk, nun or anchorite to live and as a devotional space.

Monastic sign languages have been used in Europe from at least the tenth century by Christian monks, and some, such as Cistercian and Trappist sign, are still in use today—not only in Europe, but also in Japan, China and the US.*Cistercian : Barakat, Robert.. Cistercian sign language: A study in non-verbal communication.

the first solo album by Alice Coltrane.

a spiritual practice recommended in a variety of religious traditions for purposes including becoming closer to God and achieving elevated states of spiritual purity.