former Cistercian monastery

generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
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Class: former Cistercian monastery

A former Cistercian monastery is a religious complex originally founded and occupied by the Cistercian order of monks or nuns, which has since lost its monastic function and may now serve secular, cultural, or other religious purposes.