Website: imiviron.gr / Email office: imiviron@gmail.com / Email hospitality: ivironfiloxenia@gmail.com Iviron monastery ranks third in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries, it is coenobitic since 1990 and celebrates on the Dormition of the Theotokos Iviron is located on the northeastern side of Athos peninsula on a small cove, next to the estuary of a big torrent. It … Read More
METEORA – ST. STEPHEN’S MONASTERY
At the edge of a steep cliff there lies the historic convent of St. Stephen of Meteora, known for St. Charalampus’s sacred skull being kept here. Founders of the Monastery are said to have been Saint Anthony who lived in the early 15th century and Saint Philotheos who lived in the 16th century. The monastery during its long historic route got relief and protection from … Read More
METEORA – St. NICHOLAS of ANAPAFSAS’S MONASTERY
St. Nicholas of Anapafsas’s monastery is located near the village Kastraki. It is the first monastery that one can see climbing from the village to the Holy Meteora. Its name is probably due to some old founder, who should be dated to the 14th century along with the beginnings of monastic life on this rock. It might have also been … Read More
METEORA – BARLAAM’S MONASTERY
According to tradition, Barlaam’s monastery was inhabited by the hermit Barlaam in the 14th century. It was founded in 1518, when the brothers Ss Theophanes and Nectarios, known as Apsarades, coming from Ioannina, settled there. The majestic Athonite-styled Catholicon, dedicated to All Saints, was built in 1542. The nave was decorated in 1548 by the Theban painter Frankos Catelanos. … Read More
METEORA – HOLY TRINITY MONASTERY
On a peculiar-shaped towering cliff, in an area which consists of 0.5-0.6 hectares, located northwest of St. Stephen’s Monastery, the monastery of the Holy Trinity is built. It is the most inaccessible of all the monasteries in Meteora. The climb to the monastery was formerly facilitated with ladders and the net. Today, it is accessible by walking a difficult … Read More
METEORA – ROUSANOU MONASTERY
In the center of the complex of the Holy Meteora there is the women’s monastery Rousanou, which covers the whole width of a small, steep cliff. Founded onto the ruins of older facilities (1529) by the brother monks and Saints Ioasaph and Maximus, who came from Ioannina. Climbing up from the village Kastraki, on our left side, we encounter … Read More
METEORA – GREAT METEORON MONASTERY
The Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron is considered to have been the beginning of organized monasticism on Meteora. The monastery of the Transfiguration of the Christ has come to be called “Great Meteoron”, not only because of the size of its buildings, but also because of its spiritual reputation and its primacy it held among the other monasteries on … Read More