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''This article is about Monk’s monastic cells (living quarters)''.

A '''Cellcell''' in the Christian context is name for the living quarters for of [[monasticism|monastics]], both male and female. Usually, a [[monk]]’s cell is small and contains a minimum of furnishings.

The term cell applies to such a living space in a building, usually within a [[cenobitic]] [[monastery]], that which consists of rooms for each monk or [[nun]] , as well as to a [[hermit]]'s primitive solitary living spaces that may be space (possibly a cave or , hut in the desert or , deep forests forest, etc.) isolated from monasteries. In a cenobitic setting the building of "cells” also contains communal rooms for eating.

In 2005, the oldest physical example of living quarters for Christian monks was found by renovators who were repairing paintings in a fifteenth -century [[church]] at the site of the ancient Monastery of [[Anthony the Great|St. Anthony]] in Egypt, near the Red Sea. The monastery was founded in the mid-fourth century and is located about 100 miles south west southwest of Cairo, Egypt. These cells date from the fourth and fifth centuries. This archeological find is the first physical evidence that monks lived on the monastery site before the sixth century.