Holy Mount Athos: A Sanctuary of Faith, Prayer, and Miracles
A comprehensive guide to Mount Athos. Plan your pilgrimage, explore its monasteries, discover miraculous icons, navigate with interactive maps, and send prayer requests to be read by the monks.
Plan Your Pilgrimage to Mount Athos
For sea transport, search for monastery piers (e.g., Simonopetra Monastery Pier) instead of monasteries to ensure accurate routes.
Plan your journey with detailed step-by-step public transport instructions for Mount Athos.
Discover the Spiritual Treasures of Mount Athos
Step into the sacred world of Mount Athos: explore its monasteries, visit ancient sketes, and learn about its most famous miraculous icons. Click on a card to learn more about each sacred place and its history.
Navigate Mount Athos with Interactive Maps
Use the interactive map to explore Mount Athos, find key locations, and calculate travel times with unique isochrones for better trip planning.
Send, Print, and Translate Prayer Requests for Mount Athos
Let your prayers be heard at Mount Athos. Send names to be read by monks, print traditional prayer forms, or translate them into Greek. Click on a card to find out how each feature works and start your prayer request.
Frequently Asked Questions
This website offers a comprehensive guide to Mount Athos, including monasteries, miraculous icons, public transport routes, an interactive map with routing and isochrones, and the ability to send, print, or translate prayer requests.
No, this website is an independent resource created to help visitors and pilgrims plan their journey to Mount Athos. It does not represent any official monastic institutions or agencies.
Our public transport search allows you to select a departure and destination point, along with the preferred day of travel. The system provides a step-by-step guide, including available transport options, routes, and timetables.
The interactive map lets you explore Mount Athos with features such as Points of Interest (POIs), public transport routes, foot and car navigation, and unique isochrones that help plan your walking time between locations.
You can submit a prayer request by entering names or prayers in the dedicated form. These will be sent to Mount Athos monks, who will include them in their prayers.
Yes, you can generate a ready-to-print A6-format prayer request form. The PDF includes a traditional Byzantine ornament and fits four forms on an A4 page.
This tool translates prayer requests from Russian and Romanian into Greek, making them suitable for use in Mount Athos and other Greek-speaking Orthodox services. The final document is formatted in the same A6 style for printing.
Public transport schedules are sourced from official agencies, but they may change. Routing suggestions, including GraphHopper and OpenStreetMap data, might not always reflect the best or safest paths, so we recommend verifying information before travel.
This website is a community-driven project. If you find it helpful, you can support it by providing feedback, suggesting improvements, or making a donation to help maintain and improve the platform.
If you find any incorrect details or have suggestions, please contact us through the dedicated contact form. We welcome contributions, especially from monastery representatives or experienced pilgrims.