Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

One thing you want to be sure to add to your itinerary is visiting the ancient Greek monasteries. Here are the top 10 ...

Their stories hardly end when they enter Mount Athos. A wayward hippie from Australia named Peter is now Father Ierotheos, an accomplished baritone chanter at the Iviron monastery. Father ...

TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Panteleimon, or Rossikon, on Mount Athos is not planning to close its mission in Moscow, Hierodeacon Filosof, the monastery’s deputy father superior ...

Georgian monks began to settle on Mt. Athos in the middle of the 10th century, and a Georgian monastery, Iveron, was founded there not long after. At that time foreign armies were constantly invading ...

However, few are as unique or as shrouded in mystique as Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic state in Greece. Nestled on a rugged peninsula in northern Greece, Mount Athos has been a center of ...

TASS/. Russian Orthodox Church believers will not be able to worship and receive communion at Mount Athos churches and cathedrals because of the severance of relations between the Moscow ...

Traveling as a woman can be quite the adventure, especially when some destinations have gender-based access restrictions. Let ...