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Earthquakes damage centuries-old monasteries in a secluded religious community in Greece
Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern ...
The Independent1mon
On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non ...
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Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
MOUNT ATHOS ... Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is ...
Delaware County Daily Times27d
Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non ...
Neos Kosmos6d
5.3-magnitude quake rocks Greece’s Mount Athos
A 5.3-magnitude undersea earthquake struck near Mount Athos, Greece’s historic Orthodox monastic enclave. No immediate damage ...
Houston Chronicle1mon
AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on a tradition of monastic life at a cliffside Greek monastery
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP ... The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula is no ...
The Beaumont Enterprise1mon
On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...