For the hermit monks of Karoulia, the most remote area of Mount Athos, climbing dangerous rocks and prayer are a part of ...

At the foothills of the Pierian Mountains, near the Aliakmon River, lies the Holy Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner in the Skete of Veria ...

Mihailo Tolotos, born in 1856, lived an extraordinary life of isolation on Mount Athos, a Greek monastery where women are ...

Meet the monk who lives in the cliffs on a Greek holiday island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside ...

I’m a believer. Not in a higher power, but in the power of sacred spaces to move, challenge, educate and uplift me.

See renaissancetours.com.au The lowdown Since the fourth century AD, this Coptic Orthodox monastery ... whc.unesco.org Taktsang or Tiger’s Nest Monastery clings to a mountain in Bhutan.Credit ...

Originally, the iconostasis hung inside a wooden church at the Manyava Orthodox Monastery in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains ... to the town’s Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of ...

An unspoiled beach with no people, a quiet mountain city shrouded in clouds, and a spectacular lunar desert that looks like a ...

Beyond it, halfway up the mountain, the thick walls of the Monastery of St. Katherine ... blazing history of Orthodox Christian iconography. The library, where learned monks copied and illustrated ...

From Buddhism, to Greek tragedy. One character ... has abandoned her goal of joining the Buddhist monastery. Her older brother, the soulless Saxon, has become just a little less of a — what ...

An essential day trip from here is Ostrog Monastery, a vertigo-inducing 17th-century church carved into a sheer cliff face above the Bjelopavlici plain. An important pilgrimage site for Orthodox ...