Mount Athos - Gallery

Gallery

  • Cypress of Athanasius the Athonite, Great Lavra monastery

  • View from the boat

  • The church of the Romanian skete "Prodromos"

  • Romanian skete "Prodromos"

  • Relics of the Romanian skete "Prodromos". A rough translation of the message written on the central skull is: "What I am, you will be too. What you are, I've already been."

  • A fresco of Saint Demetrius

  • Elder Paisios

  • View of Koutloumousiou monastery

  • A ship at Mount Athos

  • Holy Mount Athos by Alphonse Mucha

  • Boathouse belonging to Simonos Petras monastery

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