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Kızlar Manastırı is one of the monasteries in Türkiye with historical and cultural significance. It was commonly used as a space for women to pursue religious life, seclusion, and worship during the Byzantine period and in the pre-Islamic and post-Islamic eras. Such monasteries were places where women received religious education, engaged in worship, and sometimes lived in isolation from the social life of the community. History Kızlar Manastırları became widespread during the Byzantine period a