What is the refectory?

The refectory is a municipal dining room in the monastery, school or convent. It is the only place where nuns and monks share limited social time because the rest of their day is usually spent by work or prayer. Usually there is a large open room with long tables and benches or chairs, the refectory is close to the kitchen to easily serve food. Modern monasteries and boarding schools have similar measures and some old church refectors are now open to the public. The fraternal house or fraternity were other terms used for the place where the brothers gathered for their simple meals. Kitchen and butter or dairy would be close. In addition to these rooms, a comfortable kitchen garden was usually placed. There was a toilet or basin in front of the room. Big rich monastery or monastery, make a big refectory with windows and long benches where monks or nuns ate. Abbey Bellapais in the Turkey of Northern Cyprus had a spectacular refectory, almost 99 feet of 33 feet (30 m x 10 meters) size. Eastern Orthodox refectors or trapezes were considered almost holy as the church itself and often the altar and rare religious icons are located.

The simultaneous use of a vocabulary refectory concerning a dining room in the UK is largely found and above all at universities. Warry schools can still refer to their eating space as refectory, but changedIt grows the word café and definitely more informal atmosphere. The sitting is the same, with long tables and benches or chairs. The English Church has several cathedrals and measures that have changed their old refectors into cafes for further income. These restaurants, along with monasteries and monasteries that allow tourists to remain as paid guests overnight, offer an experience of the dining room from a reflective experience more than just religious.