Mount Athos

The State of Orthodoxy

• Monasteries

  Monasteries, nunneries, places of worship, etc.

• History

  According to Greek mythology, Mount Athos is associated with the giant battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods, the leader of the former was Athos. In the conflict, Athos threw a huge stone volume against God Poseidon, but it escaped from his hands and fell into the sea, forming the piece of land where Mount Athos is located today. …

• Culture

  The Monastic institutions of Mount Athos are divided into six classes: the Holy Monasteries or Monasteries, the Sketes, the Cells, the Huts, the Seats and the Hermitages. Monasteries today are all communal. In the past some were peculiar. In commons, the brothers have everything in common and nothing they own. The Monastery is headed by a life-long Abbot, the Community …

• Information

  Travel information, weather forecast, ship schedules, bus schedules, airplane schedules, useful phone numbers, coastguard, police station, town hall, etc.