The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

Russia’s Orthodox Church has launched theological programs in the cities of Yekaterinburg and Rostov-on-Don aimed at training ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

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

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.

Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a diverse Christian Orthodox community. The Monastery of Simonos ... of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is ...

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...

Of its 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks from other nations is not unusual. But it is in one monastery — Simonos Petra — that the ...

Also known as Simonopetra or Simon's Rock, the Christian Orthodox monastery transcends country ... Of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence ...