Gateway to Holy Mountain

Sep 08, 2007 00:35:34

Daphni: Gateway to the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos

Click any picture to see a short video collage with haunting Byzantine chanting.

Daphni is the port village, and one of the two cities of the Autonomous State of Holy Mountain, a World Heritage Site. Pilgrims from around the world sojourn to this most holy Christian shrine that was settled by anchorites and monks in the tenth century AD. The map below indicates the location of Daphni, the twenty monasteries and the capital city of Karyes.

The Founder of Mount Athos
Athanasios the Athonit

Let us all praise the Fathers who made the Mountain heaven, showed how to live on it the life of Angels and gathered on it multitudes of Monks, as we cry to them, ‘Deliver us from every constraint and assault, O multitude of Saints, boast of Athos!

Kontakion

Click on the icon above to see an awesome 360 degree panoramic view of one of the monasteries and Holy Mountain.

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