An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck the peninsula of Mount Athos on June 7, at 15:46. The strongest in a series of tremors, its epicenter was located in the sea near the coastal monasteries ...

Father Makarios shows a 1744 map depicting the Simonopetra, or the Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos ...

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake jolted the Greek Orthodox enclave of Mount Athos in northern Greece, with no injuries or damages ...

A series of earthquakes has damaged centuries-old monasteries in Mount Athos, Greece, including severe cracks in the ...

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern ...

Mount Athos is one of the most important religious sites for Orthodox Christians, and is often referred to as the Holy Mountain.(AP) A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck the Mount Athos peninsula on ...

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday rocked the Greek Orthodox religious enclave of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Athens' Institute of Geodynamics said. Mount Athos, an Orthodox spiritual ...

A violent clash at a monastic sanctuary on Greece's Mount Athos has left an Orthodox Christian monk in hospital, reigniting a decades-old religious dispute. The monk, transferred from the isolated ...

Thessaloniki, Greece (AFP)-A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday rocked the Greek Orthodox religious enclave of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Athens’ Institute of Geodynamics said.

A recent earthquake in northern Greece caused damage to three centuries-old monasteries on Mount Athos, BGNES reported. The Bulgarian monastery of St. George Zograf, also on Mount Athos ...