cloister

open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries in religious houses (abbeys, monasteries, convents, cathedrals)
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cloister

Summary

cloister ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (382 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cloister's image is recorded as Certosa di Pavia chiostro piccolo.jpg[2].
  • cloister's architectural style is recorded as sacred architecture[3].
  • cloister's GND ID is recorded as 4033079-5[4].
  • cloister's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh99000164[5].
  • cloister's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119407358[6].
  • cloister's subclass of is recorded as long gallery[7].
  • cloister's subclass of is recorded as building component[8].
  • cloister's subclass of is recorded as arcade[9].
  • cloister's subclass of is recorded as architectural structure[10].
  • cloister's subclass of is recorded as monastic dependency[11].
  • cloister's subclass of is recorded as Christian religious building space[12].
  • cloister's part of is recorded as christian monastery[13].
  • cloister's part of is recorded as Roman Catholic monastery[14].
  • cloister's Commons category is recorded as Cloisters[15].
  • cloister's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 19907[16].
  • cloister's has part is recorded as cloister yard[17].
  • cloister's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01yyjf[18].
  • cloister's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cloisters[19].
  • cloister's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX532979[20].
  • cloister's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300007423[21].
  • cloister's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 726.796[22].
  • cloister's facet of is recorded as enclosed religious order[23].
  • cloister's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0091062[24].
  • cloister's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0091061[25].
  • cloister's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0168926[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for cloister include enclosed religious order[27], a form of life[28].

Why It Matters

cloister ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (382 views/month).[1] cloister has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] cloister is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for cloister include enclosed religious order[27], a form of life[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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