Hollywood actor Mel Gibson visited the Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, connecting with the historic Orthodox ...

Mount Athos, the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain, which has steadfastly preserved its Orthodox identity, is a peninsula in northern Greece home to twenty monasteries and other ...

A recent earthquake in northern Greece caused damage to three centuries-old monasteries on Mount Athos, BGNES reported. The Bulgarian monastery of St. George Zograf, also on Mount Athos ...

Gregoriat monastery in Holy Mount Athos. (photo credit: Alexandr Zyryanov. Via Shutterstock) By JERUSALEM POST STAFF JUNE 12, 2025 12:25.

That, in turn, led him to Mount Athos in 2006. “It was in essence a deep searching of spiritual life, which is the answer for the meaning of life,” he said. Within the monastery, he found a ...

The quakes caused “severe cracks” in the dome of the Monastery of Xenophon, which was built in the late 10th century, the culture ministry said.  ...

The undersea quake had a depth of just 12.5 kilometres (7.7 miles) and struck northwest of the enclave's administrative capital of Karyes.

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern ...

FILE - Monks carry baskets of supplies to the Simonopetra, or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community of Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in ...

Mount Athos is one of the most important religious sites for Orthodox Christians, and is often referred to as the Holy Mountain. It is a semi-autonomous monastic republic and is home to 20 ...

The St Catherine's Monastery, at the foot of Egypt's Mount… Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers ...

Item 1 of 4 A general view of St. Catherine's Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt, March 7, 2019. Picture taken March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo ...