Monasteries
Monastery Megistis Lavras
The Monastery celebrates on the 5
th of July the assumption of Saint Athanasios Athonitis who built the Monastery in 963 A.D. The monks of Megistis Lavras also commemorate Virgin Mary Koukouzelissa on the 1 st of October. The Monastery is located a little further north of the southeast...
Monastery of Vatopedi
The Monastery of Vatopedi celebrates on the 25th of March the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary . Also the Monastery honors on the 21st of January the Virgin Mary the Vimatarissa . According to tradition the Monastery was built by Constantine the Great , it was destroyed and rebuilt later...
Monastery of Iberon
The Monastery of Iviron celebrates on the 15th of August the Dormition of Mary Virgin . It was founded in 980 by Ioannis Tornikios of Iberia - a member of the court of the ruler of Iberia (Georgia) and general of Byzantium - in the position where previously was the Monastery of Clementos. The...
Monastery of Helandariou
The Monastery Helandariou or Hilandariou celebrates on the 21 st of November the Presentation of Virgin Mary. The founder of the Monastery -from which it was named after- hermit Grigorios Helandaris who, in around 980, built a small church and a home for himself and some monks, at the same...
Monastery of Agios Dionysios
The Monastery of Agios Dionysios celebrates the birth of Ioanni Prodromou on the 24 th of June. It was founded in 1389 by Agios Dionysios the Koritsa. The Monastery is locatedin an altitude of 80 meters, on a rock, and east of the Aeropotamos cascade. It is the 4 th in hierarchy among the...
Monastery of Koultoumousiou
The Monastery of Koultoumousiou celebrates the Transfiguration of Christ on the 6 th of August. It was founded by Saint Koultoumousi at the end of the 13 th century. The Monastery is locatedsouthwest of Karyes at a distance of 500 meters First dean of the Monastery was the emperor Alexios I...
Pantocratoros Monastery
The Pantocratoros Monastery celebrates on the 6th of August the Transfiguration of Christ. It was founded by the great stratopedarch Alexios and his brother Ioannis Primikirios the Great. A document signed by the Patriarch of Constantinople Kallistos in 1357 confirms the establishment of the...
Monastery Xiropotamou
The Monastery Xiropotamou celebrates the Forty Martyrs on the 9 th of March. It was founded -during the take over- in 424 from the empress Pulcheria, wife of Emperor Marcianos. The most probable version regarding its construction is that it was founded at the end of the 10 th century by the...
Monastery Zografou
Monastery Zografou celebrates on the 23 rd of April in honor of Agios Georgios. It was founded in the 10 th century by three brothers from Achrida Moeses, Aaron and Ioannis in the years of Emperor Leonta Sofou. In ancient documents it is referred to as Monastery of Agios Georgios Zografos....
Monastery of Dochiariou
The Monastery of Dochiariou celebrates the Assembly of the Archangels on the 8 th of November. It was originally founded at Daphne in the 10 th century in the name of Agios Nikolaos from dochiari (= storer) of Athanassios Lavriotis, Efthimio. When the monastery was destroyed it was...
