Meteora in Greece features monasteries perched 1,300 feet high on cliffs, blending faith, nature, and history in a UNESCO ...

Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis leads a Greek delegation to Egypt regarding the ownership status of the Sinai Monastery.

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

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...

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MOUNT ATHOS, Greece ... an affiliated monastery in France as part of a spiritual quest. On what brought him to Mount Athos: “It was in essence a deep searching of spiritual life, which is ...

“This spirit, this open spirit of the elder attracted many souls who were searching for a genuine, emphatic meaning of life,” he said. One of the oldest non-Greek monks in the monastery is ...

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Pantocrator in Patras, Greece, stands out for having been modeled after Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece. Also known as Simonopetra or Simon’s Rock ...

on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Life in the monastery — and across Mount Athos — has changed little in the more than ...

“This spirit, this open spirit of the elder attracted many souls who were searching for a genuine, emphatic meaning of life,” he said. One of the oldest non-Greek monks in the monastery is ...