The mini-grid features 462 kW of solar generation capacity at present. Image: Metka Mt Athos, in Greece is a peninsula home to a unique center of Eastern Christian Orthodox monasticism.

Those things surely helped as he and fellow producer Harry Radliffe tried to get permission to film a "60 Minutes" story on the otherworldly Mt. Athos, a self-governed peninsula in Greece that's ...

In Mt. Athos, Byzantine Empire lingersThe Details Visiting Mount Athos Non-Orthodox foreigners must apply (two to four weeks in advance) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate of Churches ...

Putin flew from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki Saturday morning, went by road near Mt.Athos and then took a boat — the only means to reach the community. At Karyes, the ...

The spiritual heart of Orthodox Christianity, Mt. Athos is home to 20 monasteries. 60 Minutes got rare access to one for Holy Week services in 2018.

Mt. Athos, Greece: Of Monks and Men August 5, 2006 More than 18 years ago By Neil Averitt ...

The ancient monasteries of Mt. Athos, a Greek peninsula-island barred to women and non-monks since the 9th century, will be described in a free lecture and slide show in Huntsville, Ala., on ...

Agionoros.ru has published extracts from a topical article from Abbot Archimandrite Gregory (Zumisa) of Mt. Athos’ Dochariou Monastery in which he recounts Greece’s glorious past, contrasting it with ...

But the monks of Mt Athos in Greece now fear that the peace and quiet of their all-male sanctuary is at risk from a new law that allows people to change their gender.

On February 22, 2011, Hieroschemamonk Petroniu (Tănase) reposed in the Lord. He was the abbot of the Romanian Podromu Skete (dedicated to the Nativity of St. John the Baptist) on the Holy Mountain of ...