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    • A refectory (also frater, frater house, fratery) is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminaries . The name derives from the Latin reficere "to remake or restore," via Late Latin refectorium, which means "a place one goes to be restored" (cf. "restaurant"). … See more

    Refectories and monastic culture

    Communal meals are the times when all monks of an institution are together. Diet and eating habits differ somewhat by
    The … See more

    Size, structure, and placement

    Refectories vary in size and dimension, based primarily on wealth and size of the monastery, as well as when the room was built. They share certain design features. Monks eat at long benches; important officials sit … See more

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    Eastern Orthodox

    In Eastern Orthodox monasteries, the trapeza (Greek: τραπεζαρία, refectory) is considered a sacred place, and in some cases is even constructed as a full church with an altar and iconostasis. Some services are intende… See more

    Modern usage

    As well as continued use of the historic monastic meaning, the word refectory is often used in a modern context to refer to a café or cafeteria that is open to the public—including non-worshipers such as tourists—attached … See more

    Sources

    • Adams, Henry, Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres. New York: Penguin, 1986.
    • Fernie, E. C. The Architecture of Norman England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.… See more

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