Mount Athos, the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain, which has steadfastly preserved its Orthodox identity, is a peninsula in northern Greece home to twenty monasteries and other ...

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern Greece, authorities said on Friday. Mount Athos is one of the most ...

The undersea quake had a depth of just 12.5 kilometres (7.7 miles) and struck northwest of the enclave's administrative capital of Karyes.

A local official in Karyes said there were no immediate reports of damage. Mount Athos, an Orthodox spiritual centre since 1054, has enjoyed an autonomous statute since Byzantine times.

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday rocked the Greek Orthodox religious enclave of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Athens’ Institute of Geodynamics said. The undersea quake had a depth of ...

The 5.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Saturday afternoon on Mount Athos is causing concern in the scientific community. According to the revised solution of the Geodynamic Institute, the quake ...

Earthquake of 5.4 Richter magnitude in Karyes, Mount Athos An earthquake occurred at around 15:50 on Saturday afternoon near the monastic settlement of Karyes on Mount Athos.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is no stranger to non-Greeks.

Video. Perched on a cliffside above the Aegean Sea, the Monastery of Simonos Petra is home to one of Orthodoxy’s most diverse monastic communities.

Europe News: Simonos Petra, a monastery on Mount Athos, embraces monks from diverse backgrounds, transcending national boundaries within the Orthodox Christian fai ...

Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more ...