Articles on Mount Athos, Including : Prayer Rope, Lavra, Karyes (athos), Kathisma, Panagia Portaitissa, Elder Paisios, Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

By: Books, Hephaestus

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Mount Athos.More info: Mount Athos is a mountain on the eponymous peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. The peninsula is called the "Holy Mountain" . In Classical times, the peninsula was called Akte (sometimes Acte or Akte). Its political status in Greece is known as the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain. This World Heritage Site is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1242741321
• ISBN13: 9781242741326
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: BiblioBazaar
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.4" x 9.7"