Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

Around a hundred artifacts, including a 4,000-year-old bowl, a sixth-century mosaic from a Byzantine church and a Greek-inspired ... Over the years, excavations uncovered the remains of the Monastery ...

It played an important role during the Greek War of Independence in 1821 against the Ottomans. The monastery is also home to countless Byzantine icons, frescoes, copper plates, manuscripts, and other ...

The hilltop fortress and Byzantine monasteries are a highlight of a visit to this UNESCO site. The Holy Mountain of Mount Athos is an Orthodox spiritual centre dating back to 1054. It’s a ...

The Orthodox monastery is a remnant of ten monks belonging to the Byzantine rite Basilian order, loyal to the Pope but clinging to their traditional Greek liturgies against all odds while keeping the ...

BYZANTINE. The largest of these eastern rites ... its origins to the work of St. Maron in the 4th century who founded a monastery east of Antioch. Later monks moved to the mountains in what ...

His tomb became a pilgrimage site still mentioned in the 6th century. Today, this Byzantine monastery, which shone through its activity until the 7th century, is one of the last witnesses of the ...

Photograph by Myo Kyaw Soe Xinhua, eyevine, Redux Myanmar’s temples, mosques, monasteries, and nunneries are far more than just places of worship, experts emphasize. Each plays crucial and ...