The phrase "a small monastery" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the size of a monastery, indicating that it is not large in scale.
Example: "During our travels, we stumbled upon a small monastery nestled in the mountains, offering a peaceful retreat for visitors."
Alternatives: "a tiny monastery" or "a modest monastery".
Within a year, a businessman from his hometown recruited him to help build a small monastery in the hills nearby.
The place would have existing tenants – a small monastery, and the remnants of an MOD research station.
INSIDE a small monastery in China's Qinghai province, a red-robed monk looks around to see if he is being watched, then begins sobbing.
A small monastery, the Kaisarianí, stands on the site of a spring renowned in the ancient world for its curative properties.
Amazingly, he did: His Holiness Ajahn Chah, the master of a small monastery in northern Thailand, who was dedicated to preserving, in pure form, the mindfulness practices the Buddha himself pioneered.
Our guide took us to a small monastery and Orthodox church that stands on a cliff overlooking the town, a holy site that brings many of the Greek diaspora back home for a festival each August.
"I had been thinking with horror that it might become a hotel or health spa, until I was shown the information on the internet that the Ramsgate Benedictines had decided that they had to leave Ramsgate and look for a smaller monastery.
Soon after his appointment, Oswald founded a small Benedictine monastery at Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire.
It also has a small Buddhist monastery, or gompa, and a Swiss-owned factory that produces yak cheese.
Orphaned by famine and plague in 1344, young Zhu was taken into a small Buddhist monastery near Fengyang city as a lay novice.
During the 5th century the island became a refuge for persecuted Christians, and a small Celtic monastery existed.
