Mount Athos is the traditional heart of Orthodox Byzantine monasticism, and has been the home of an unbroken monastic life since the ninth century. It remains, now in the twenty-first century, one of the centres of the Orthodox monastic tradition throughout the world. It has served as a home to the hesychastic tradition and locus of such great figures as St Gregory Palamas and countless others. Known as the 'Garden of the Mother of God', it remains a great home of pilgrimage and prayer.
We offer here a number of resources on the Holy Mountain, its history, and its present life.
