Abbey of Byloke
church, Ghent, Belgium
Also known as: Abbey of Bijloke
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The Abbey of Byloke was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1228 in Ghent, Belgium. Today, its remains house the museum of archaeology and part of the city hospital. An abbey is a complex of buildings that serves a self-contained religious community, typically centered around an abbey church and led by an abbot or abbess. The term can also refer to the abbey church itself, even if the rest of the monastic buildings are gone, as is the case with Westminster Abbey in England.12
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