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Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...
Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world — as long as they’re men
The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.
On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...
AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on a tradition of monastic life at a cliffside Greek monastery
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...
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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 than 1,000 ...
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Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...
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Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — . The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non-Greeks: of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks ...
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AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on a tradition of monastic life at a cliffside Greek monastery
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece. Also known as Simonopetra or Simon’s Rock ...