Mount Athos • The Holy Mountain
A Visit To The Holy Mountain ATHOS, Greece
A pilgrimage to the Byzantine monasteries of Mount Athos, the spiritual center of the Orthodox Church.
Athos | Feature Documentary
Mount Athos on a peninsula off the cost of Greece is one of Europe's last remaining secrets: a monks' republic. Access to women is strictly denied and in order to keep unwanted tourists out, visas are granted only to pilgrims and workers. For the first time, a filmmaker was given access to all forms of monastic life on the holy mountain.
Athos the Holy Mountain (Greece) - CBS Documentary
Orthodox Christian Monasteries in the monastic peninsula of mount Athos (Holy Mountaint)
in Chalkidiki, Nothern Greece.
The Holy Mountain Athos (The Garden of the Mother of God) was created by ancient Byzantine emperors to be the spiritual capital of Orthodox Christianity. Millions of Orthodox Christians believe it is the most sacred place on Earth.
There are 2,000 Anthonite monks living in what is the most unique monastery complex in the world; most pray all day. Some monks even tell that they pray while they sleep -- and they only get about three hours of sleep a night. The monks divide their day into three parts: They spend about eight hours a day in church, and when they're not resting their time is dedicated to the work needed to keep the 20 monasteries running. Mt. Athos is also beautiful and has probably changed less than any other inhabited place on the planet. Some of the monasteries here are perched high on cliffs above the Aegean Sea, with sylvan hills as a backdrop and architecture that could have come out of a medieval fairytale. It was the architecture that first attracted a young boy from Winthrop, Mass.
It was just so impressive and I turned around and I said to him, 'Dad, you know, I don't think I am going to believe that somebody lives in that building until I step on those balconies myself, says Fr. Iakovos, one of three monks originally from the U.S. He came to Mt. Athos 25 years ago and he points out that it's not just the way of life that hasn't changed, neither has the Divine Liturgy that the monks celebrate every day. You have to understand, the words that we are saying in today's liturgy are the same words Christ was saying, are the same words that saints from the first century, the second century, the third century, the fourth century.
Over the last millennium, the 20 monasteries here have been a repository for sacred treasures and religious relics that date back to the days of the Byzantine Empire. Father Matthew, from Fond du Lac, Wis., was given special permission by the abbot of Vatopedi Monastery to show just a few of the almost 4,000 religious icons stored there, the highlight, a restored icon of Christ dating from the 14th century.
These priceless artifacts are kept behind lock and key and are rarely seen by pilgrims or even the monks themselves. The lock system was ancient and extraordinary. It requires four separate keys to unlock the door to the inner sanctum, and normally takes at least two monks to unlock the door, because no one monk is allowed to have all four keys at the same time. It could be described as a medieval version of the nuclear launch control.
The rare treasures on Mt. Athos have attracted many invaders over the centuries. Fr Maximos, a former professor at the Harvard Divinity School who is from Long Island, N.Y., tells that the German forces were about to invade the peninsula. The monks met with German officers who told them the only way to save themselves was to make a direct appeal to Hitler. The monks wrote a letter and asked Hitler to place the Holy Mountain under his personal protection and It seems that Hitler liked the idea and accepted the invitation to become the personal protector of the Holy Mountain.
Hitler's plan was to loot the sacred treasures though, and he sent an advance team of academics to photograph and catalogue almost everything on the Holy Mountain. In the end, not a thing was ever taken -- no one really knows why -- possibly divine intervention.
Most monks today consider the Nazi episode a small blip on the road -- after all, the monks there have been devoting their lives to prayer for 1,000 years. They say they try to get as close to God as humanly possible.
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Athos, The Holy Mountain
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Πιστεύω πως ούτε τρεις μήνες είναι αρκετοί...
Mount Athos, Greece
The last remains of the Byzantine Empire. A place where only monks live and the permit to visit is really strict. No women allowed.
The nature, the monasteries and the lack of cars and real civilization make this place one of the most unique places on earth.
To all my female friends.
Enjoy...
Music by Manos Hatzidakis from the
Giocondas' Smile. This very piece is called Concerto
Walking the Holy Mountain - Mount Athos, Greece
Mount Athos is a mythical place to go, but only men are allowed here.
20 orthodox monasteries lie on this peninsula, the oldest is over 1000
years old. The peak, Athos, is 2033 m above the Aegean Sea. The nature is fabulous, also in autumn. Come hike with us!
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MOUNT ATHOS, The Holy Mountain
MOUNT ATHOS is a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Greek Republic. Mount Athos is home to 20 monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
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This Mountain Has Been Home to Monks for 12 Centuries
Amongst the picturesque cliffs of Mount Athos, Greece, lives a community of monks who have been on this sacred piece of land for centuries. Isolated and hard to reach, the mountain is one of the most important places in the Christian Orthodox world. The monks first arrived on the island in the ninth century, and their way of life has essentially remained the same. Most of their time is spent praying, cultivating the land and creating handmade products to sell. Come along and get lost in their tranquil way of life.
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Traveling in the millennial Athonite state of Mount Athos. A trip unique in time and space, a spiritual journey to the history of Orthodox monasticism. Where space and time gain another dimension and perspective. Where the relationship with the earth, the ephemeral, the perishable is completely conventional, without substance.
Special thanks to:
1) The hagiographer Elder Loukas from the Xenophontos Monastery, who accepted to talk about his work on the hagiography of St. John the Baptist, Nicholas in New York, for his collaboration with the architect Kalatrava and the Byzantine hagiography in general.
2) The Monasteries of the Great Lavra, Koutloumousiou, Agios Pavlos, St. Panteleimon, Xenophontos and the Skete of Saint Anne.
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A Thousand Years as One Day - Mt. Athos
An English overdub of the 1981 film
'A thousand years seem like just one day,
Monks from Athos, the Holy Mountain'
originally made for German TV.
The film is described as
a sensitive study of one of the
twenty great monasteries of Mount Athos,
a thousand year old monastic republic in northern Greece-
the famous 'Holy Mountain' of the Orthodox church.
A detailed picture of life in the 900 year old
monastery of Simonopetra.
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Bob Simon steps back in time when he gets rare access to monks in ancient monasteries on a remote Greek peninsula who have lived a Spartan life of prayer in a tradition virtually unchanged for a thousand years.
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Holy Mountain or Mount Athos in Greece
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Holy Mountain or Mount Athos in Greece
I think it is unique place for visit, because not all the gender can explore their holiday in this place. This place is well known in Greece as Agio Oros (Holy Mountain). It is one of the tourism places that must be visited for tourists. Female are forbids enter to Mount Athos, only men are permitted. Someone visit for the waves in the beaches with the golden sand but someone else visit for the mouthwatering cuisine. The named is Mount Athos, located a peninsula in Halkidiki, Northren Greece. This sacred area consists of twenty monasteries including one Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian. Mount Athos is 2,039 m high from the ground, one of the virgin places in Greece. Although this mount difficult to reach the top, but the visitor still make effort. Not only the local visitors but also the foreigners swamp the place. We can reach to the Mount Athos only by a boat, but only for male that can visit this place. From April to September is the best season for visitors to come to Mount Athos and reservations should be made well six months in advance and call two weeks before to confirm the reservation.
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Bird’s eye view of Mount Athos in Greece which is home to 20 monasteries and an important spiritual site for Orthodox Christians.
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The Holy Mountain,
An incredible place full of faith in God and modest retreat.
Incomparable frescoes and medieval architecture.
A place of history and biblical secrets.
A place of tranquility and contemplation.