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Monastery is for priest and nunnery is for nuns
Nuns can live in a monastery, and abbey, or a convent.
In a monastery or abbeyMonks live in monasteries, and nuns live in convents or in monasteries.
Monastery for monks (males).Nunnery or convent for nuns (females).
The spelling is "abbey" and, as with a monastery, the inhabitants may be either nuns or monks.
Monks - monastery. Nuns - convent.
the abbot is in charge of the monks and nuns
Nuns have always lived in monasteries. They are sometimes called an Abbey, but the Abbey strictly refers to the Church, while "monastery" refers to the entire complex. "Monastery" can refer to a place where Nuns live, or where monks live. The archaic term for where Nuns live and work was "Nunnery."
A monastery is a place where nuns and/or monks live. Some of the nuns devote their lives to God so they only live and work inside the monastery instead of a working as a teacher or other profession outside the monastery.
Your question should probably be, "Do Sisters work in asylums?" as nuns are enclosed in a monastery and have no outside work.
Monks and Friars live in a monastery. Nuns and cloistered women live in monasteries as well, not to be confused with convents.
Monastery, abbey, convent, nunnery, priory, cloister.