According to rigidly enforced custom, women have been forbidden to visit Mount Athos since its earliest days—a position born out of weakness rather than spite. As one monk says, "If women were ...

In 1995, six Orthodox monks left Mount Athos in Greece and came to the US to start Saint Anthony Orthodox Monastery in the Arizona desert.

This mystical site, which sits along one of Europe's most beautiful stretches of coastline, is one of the continent's last ...

What’s more, here is a fantastic story about how some heretical Russian Orthodox monks on Mount Athos led to breakthroughs in higher mathematics. Excerpts: And so it wasn’t all that surprising ...

This is the day that St. Anna departed this world. The monks of Mt. Athos, the reigning Abbess of which is the Most Holy Theotokos, have always had a special veneration of St. Anna. The website of the ...

A photojournalist of the Pravoslavie.ru website, Vladimir Orlov, has participated in the festivities on Holy Mount Athos dedicated to Venerable Athanasius the Athonite in the Great Lavra Monastery, ...

Many monks engage in farming, manuscript preservation, and iconography—continuing traditions that date back centuries. Access to Mount Athos is highly controlled, with only 100 Orthodox and 10 ...