skete
A skete is a community of Christian hermits following a monastic rule, allowing them to worship in comparative solitude, while also affording them a level of mutual practical support and security.
A skete usually has a common area of worship (a church or a chapel), with individual hermitages, or small houses for a small number of monks or nuns.
In the early tradition of Christianity, the skete was one form of monastic life, forming a bridge between the cenobium (community of monks or nuns living together) and the isolated hermitage (solo monks and nuns). In the early church, once steps began to be taken to further religious ascetiscism by giving it organised forms, men and women aspiring to be hermits or anchorites, might first be sent to the skete in preparation – the skete acted as almost a 'halfway house' between the cenobium and total solitude.
The term "skete" has fallen out of use in Western Christianity; however, the eremitic communal life of the Carthusian, Camaldolese, and Carmelite hermits is similar to that in the Eastern Christian tradition.
See also
 Scetes
Lavra
Desert Fathers
Mount Athos
New Skete
Community of Hermits of St. Bruno
External links
New Skete - a skete for monks
St. Michael's Skete, New Mexico
Holy Transfiguration Skete of the Society of St. John
Carthusian Order
Carmelite Hermits
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