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Minster

A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.

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Cathedral 76% connected

The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.

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Monastery 70% connected

A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for fem…

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