Editing Convent (section)

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{{Short description|Religious community or the building used by such a community}}
[[File:Agreda - Convento Concepcion 06.JPG|thumb|Convent of the [[Conceptionists]] in [[Ágreda]]]]
A '''convent''' is an enclosed community of [[monk]]s, [[nun]]s, [[friar]]s or [[religious sister]]s. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. 

The term is particularly used in the [[Catholic Church]], [[Lutheranism|Lutheran churches]], and the [[Anglican Communion]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Evangelisti |first1=Silvia |title=Nuns: A History of Convent Life, 1450–1700 |date=2008 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780199532056 |pages=38–39 |language=English|quote=Finally, irrespective of religious beliefs, convents remained a possible model for women—Catholic as well as Protestant—to pursue. In Protestant Germany, forms of female religious associative life did not die out, but instead survived in the shape of Protestant convents. These could be governed by a Lutheran abbess, and inhabited by Lutheran nuns in religious habits who claimed membership of a monastic order, paradoxical though this may seem.}}</ref>