Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name)
5. complexes (buildings and sites)
6. [complexes by function]
7. religious complexes

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment
4. Single Built Works
5. single built works
6. single built works by specific type
7. single built works by function
8. residential structures
9. dwellings
10. multiple dwellings

Narrower term/s

• béguinages
• convents (built complexes)[+]
  • mathas [NP]
• hermitages (religious structures)
• monasteries (built complexes)[+]
  • abbeys (monasteries)
  • double monasteries
  • priories
  • charterhouses
  • mathas [NP]
  • wats [NP]
  • kyaungs
  • mahārājalīlāsana
  • mahāvihāra
  • muṭṭa
• friaries
• lavras
• mathas
• sanghas
• tekkes (monasteries)
• viharas (religious communities)
• novitiates (dwellings) [NP]
• ashrams
• haus tambaran

Anotations

Scope note:

Facilities for groups of people living together or near each other, and subscribing to the tenets of a particular religion, including those who have taken vows and belong to the structure of a particular order, as well as more loosely organized groups of people. For the religious officials or functionaries of a religion, use "clergy." For the formal, organized groups themselves, use "religious orders."