The Sunday Times team that visited the site were taken on an exhaustive hike around the mountain by a team from the university, who have been based here since 2012. Rajagala’s verifiable history dates ...

Nestled in a rocky depression above the turquoise waters of the Aliakmonas River in northwest Greece lies a remarkable ...

Monks pray during the afternoon liturgy at the Simonopetra, or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in ...

For the first time in three years because of the COVID pandemic, the 5K Run or Walk will return to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit at 8:30 a.m. May 6.

We visited the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old religious center where Mount Everest climbers pray for safety. ... But he also endured a handful of close calls on the mountain.

Perched on a cliffside above the Aegean Sea, the Monastery of Simonos Petra is home to one of Orthodoxy’s most diverse monastic communities. View on euronews ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — or Simon’s Rock — transcends country-based branches of the ...

PARO VALLEY: Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge trekked on Friday to a Buddhist monastery on a mountainside in Bhutan, going one better than the duke’s father, Prince Charles, who on a ...