Tag:amenity=monastery

amenity = monastery
Description
An active monastery or convent, occupied by a community of monks or nuns living under religious vows.
Group: religion
Used on these elements
Useful combination
name=* religion=* denomination=* community=*
See also
historic=monastery
Status: de facto
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The tag amenity=monastery denotes the site of an active monastery (or canonry, convent, comandry or hermitage), sometimes just a building, or a complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer (e.g. an oratory) as well as the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone (hermits).

How to map

Use the tag amenity=monastery on a closed way (area) drawn around the perimeter of a site (preferred), or on a node placed at the centrepoint of a site.

Tags to use in combination

Any tag you like, in particular consider to add these:

• name=*
• opening_hours=*
• website=*
• phone=*
• addr:*=*
• operator=*
• wheelchair=*
• wikipedia=*

• community=*
  • community:language code=* the (local) name of the community in a specified language, similar to Multilingual_names
• operator:wikidata=*
• religion=*
• denomination=*

Monastics, mendicants or canons regular

• monastery:type=monastery to tag a place operated by a community of monastics.
• monastery:type=convent to tag a place operated by a community of mendicants.
• monastery:type=friary to tag a place operated by a community of Franciscans' three orders (the Order of Friars Minor, the largest contemporary male order, the Order of Saint Clare, order for nuns, and the Third Order of Saint Francis, open to male and female members), who refer to their houses as friaries exclusively.
• monastery:type=canonry a place operated by canons regular. not sure if this should be a subtype of monastery, maybe an attribute which can be combined with churches would be better.
• monastery:type=commandry to tag a place operated by Military order.
• monastery:type=hermitage to tag a hermitage.
• monastery:type=clerks_regular to tag a place operated by clerics regular.

Monks or nuns

If you want to be explicit about the gender of the community you can use these subtags:

• community:gender=male for a community of males
• community:gender=female for a community of females
• community:gender=mixed for monastery like communities with male and female members (e.g. the Chemin Neuf Community)

See also

• historic=monastery - historic monastery
• amenity=place_of_worship
• Proposed features/monastery with lots of definitions, details and subtag descriptions

External links

• Implemented JOSM preset inclusion request