House community (religion)

The house community in the religious sense describes the totality of the people living together in a household and is therefore in contrast to the term house community in the secular sense, which means the totality of all living parties in a residential building. One could also speak of a religious residential community , since the members mostly belong to the same religious community.

Examples

• Monasteries
• Convents
• Branches of other religious orders in a common house or apartment
• Communities
• the house community in the seminary

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