Simonopetra monastery
Sign in to saveSimonopetra Monastery (, literally: "Simon's Rock"), also Monastery of Simonos Petra (), is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It ranks 13th in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
Key facts
- Monastery.name
- Simonopetra
- Monastery.native_name
- Σιμωνόπετρα
- Monastery.native_name_lang
- el
- Monastery.image
- Simonopetra Aug2006.jpg
- Monastery.caption
- Southern view of the monastery.
- Monastery.full
- Holy Monastery of Simonopetra
- Monastery.other_names
- Simonos Petra
- Monastery.order
- Ecumenical Patriarchate
- Monastery.established
- 13th century
- Monastery.dedication
- Nativity of Jesus
- Monastery.diocese
- Mount Athos
- Monastery.founder
- Simon the Athonite
- Monastery.prior
- Archimandrite Elder Eliseus
- Monastery.location
- Mount Athos, Greece
- Monastery.map_type
- Mount Athos
- Monastery.public_access
- Men only
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Described at
Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού | Μονή Σίμωνος Πέτρας
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Simonopetra Monastery (, literally: "Simon's Rock"), also Monastery of Simonos Petra (), is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It ranks 13th in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
It is on the southern coast of the Athos peninsula, between the Athonite port of Dafni and Osiou Grigoriou monastery. While the southern coast of Athos is generally quite rugged, the site upon which the monastery is built is exceptionally harsh. It is built on top of a single huge rock, practically hanging from a cliff 330 metres over the sea. It currently houses 54 monks. Its hegumen is Archimandrite Eliseus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simonopetra monastery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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