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[Orange-of-Cthulhu]

It's a suggestion to limit the somewhat excessive amount of monasteries.

As a bonus, sites get more interesting stories.

The proposed mechanic is:

When a religion gets to the point of creating a monastery, a check is made for monasteries with 0 pop starting from the oldest monasteries.

If one is found, the new religion moves in the empty place.

The former culturally-specific-stuff like statues etc are removed and thrown in a junk pile and replaced with new statues. If there are differences in buuldings, the specific buildings are left where they are abandoned, and new are build.

If the same thing happens again, the monastery goes back into the pool of "available" monasteries and the process is repeated.

It could be used to have very interesting sites emerge. They could have a bunch of overgrown not-been-used-in-centuries altars.

[FantasticDorf]

They aren't really meant to be all depopulated, but it would be nice to see them repopulated. It'd also add to local flavor if the different civs of the world could periodically show the extent of power they have in the region by influencing the architecture like this, as it was shown that different godly spheres does have a significant aesthetic impact, so once the monastery has enough money (using the tower buying system/embezzlement necros do), they could just refurbish it like you say.

Overall thumbs up.

(((oh and going there to rob it blind stealing the newly renovated furniture and monks belongings/and start bleeding evil spheres out of it by proxy, bit like the dominions game genre.)))

[SixOfSpades]

When a religion gets to the point of creating a monastery, a check is made for monasteries with 0 pop starting from the oldest monasteries.

     Instead of just tying it directly to the monastery's age, I think it'd tell a more interesting story if it involved the rise & fall of various civs, and the spheres of the gods in question.
     For instance, say two civilizations--the Sunken Oils and the Confederacy of Papers--are neighbors, and hostile to one another. The Confederacy of Papers is triumphant, and sacks/occupies most of the Sunken Oils' sites in the area. Now, both civs have gods of sun/sky/weather, and the Confederacy's sky god (let's call him Bob) wants to supplant/absorb that of the Oils (Martha), so the priests of Bob organize a crusade to "cleanse" all of Martha's (nearby) monasteries of the "heretics" currently worshiping there. The (surviving) priests of Martha flee with what movable relics they can, to any settlement of the Sunken Oils that they are able to, and from there, check for the closest abandoned monastery. (Unless there's already a Marthan monastery still considered "safe", in which case they'd just go there.)
     They move in to this strange monastery, and their "refurbishment" might take any of several forms, depending on the spheres of the gods in question & the history of their civilizations: If it was hallowed to a god with spheres totally different from Martha's, from a civ that is either now extinct or currently/formerly hostile to the Sunken Oils, then screw him, pull his statues down & toss 'em outside. But if it's yet another sun/sky/weather god from a neutral civilization, or another deity from the Sunken Oils' pantheon, then they might arrange to share the space: One statue venerated at each end of the main chapel, for instance.
     Meanwhile, the worshipers of Bob are conducting their own renovations, removing all traces of Martha & replacing her with Bob. It would be very flavorful if all religions had procedurally-generated secondary traits: For instance, all temples of Bob might be rectangular in shape, while Martha prefers hexagons. So if your adventurer enters a hexagonal temple, but there are images of Bob everywhere, that would be evidence that this monastery was originally Marthan, but taken over during the Bobist Reform in the late autumn of 1024.