The Details. Visiting Mount Athos. Non-Orthodox foreigners must apply (two to four weeks in advance) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate of Churches, 2 Zalokosta Street, Athens, Greece ...

2006-10-08 04:00:00 PDT Mount Athos, Greece-- Welcome to the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos. Please set your calendar back a thousand years. Clocks here run on Byzantine time, which starts ...

At Karyes, the administrative center of Mt. Athos, Putin was greeted by the 20 abbots of the monasteries and 20 representatives of the monks, as well as a representative of the Greek Orthodox ...

PM Mitsotakis of Greece visited the monastic state of Mount Athos today, describing it as "an enlightened center of spiritual ...

KARYES (Mount Athos), May 28. /TASS/. Mount Athos is to a great extent a source of moral foundations of the society, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday on a visit to Mount Athos to ...

Plans for the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of integration of Holy Mount Athos to Greece were very promising, reports Romphea; however, it will all end in no more than a visit to Mt. Athos by ...

After his arrival, Kyriakos Mitsotakis was led to the Holy Church of Protaton, where the official welcome ceremony took place ...

A police statement Tuesday said the 48-year-old was arrested in Karyes, administrative center of Mount Athos, the 1,000-year-old Greek Orthodox monastic community. His name was not released, in ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck the peninsula of Mount Athos on June 7, at 15:46. The strongest in a series of tremors, its epicenter was located in the sea near the coastal ...

At Karyes, the administrative center of Mount Athos, Putin was greeted by the 20 abbots of the monasteries and 20 representatives of the monks on the peninsula, as well as a representative of the ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...