- Foundation and Dedication Dates of the Monasteries
- Contacting Mount Athos: An Athos Directory (Links to websites are provided when available.)
- Further reading
FOUNDATION & DEDICATION OF THE MONASTERIES
In this table the monasteries are listed in order of their foundation together with their dedication and the date of its celebration according to the Julian calendar (after Hasluck, pp. 19-20):
| 963 | Great Lavra | St. Athanasios the Athonite (5 July) |
| 976 | Iviron | Dormition (15 August) |
| after 972 | Vatopedi | Annunciation (25 March) |
| before 992 | Philotheou | Annunciation (25 March) |
| c. 1030 | Xeropotamou | Forty Martyrs (9 March) |
| early 11th c. | Esphigmenou | Ascension |
| before 1046 | Dochiariou | Archangels Michael & Gabriel (8 November) |
| c. 1050 | St Paul's | Purification (2 February) |
| c. 1070 | Karakalou | Sts Peter & Paul (29 June) |
| c. 1070 | Xenophontos | St. George (23 April) |
| c. 1086 | Konstamonitou | St. Stephen (27 December) |
| 1081-1118 | Koutloumousiou | Transfiguration (6 August) |
| before 1169 | St Panteleimonos | St. Panteleimon (27 July) |
| 1197 | Hilandar | Presentation (21 November) |
| c. 1270 | Zographou | St. George (23 April) |
| before 1363 | Pantokratoros | Transfiguration (6 August) |
| 1363 | Simonopetra | Nativity (25 December) |
| 1375 | Dionysiou | St. John the Baptist (24 June) |
| 1341-91 | Grigoriou | St. Nicholas (6 December) |
| 1541 | Stavronikita | St. Nicholas (6 December) |
CONTACTING MOUNT ATHOS: An Athos Directory
- E-mail
The monasteries of Mount Athos give out email addresses only at their own discretion.
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Post
The postal address for any monastery on Athos is
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I M [NAME OF MONASTERY]
63086 Karyes
Agion Oros
Greece
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IM stands for Iera Moni ("Holy Monastery")
IMM stands for Iera Megisti Moni ("Holy Great Monastery", a title applied to the Lavra and Vatopedi)
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From North America: 011-30-23770-41488 From Europe: 00-30-23770-41488
| KARYES OFFICES | TEL. NO. | FAX NO. |
| Holy Community
& Holy Epistasia | 23221 | 23315 (archigrammateus) |
| Civil governor | 23230 | |
| Doctor | 23217 | |
| Police | 23212 | |
| Post office | 23214 |
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| DAPHNI OFFICES | TEL. NO. | FAX NO. |
| Harbour | 23300 | |
| Police | 23222 | |
| Post office | 23297 | |
| MONASTERIES (in order of precedence) | TEL. NO. | FAX NO |
| Great Lavra | 23754 | 23013 |
| Vatopedi | 41488 | 41462 |
| Iviron | 23643 | 23248 |
| Hilandar | 23797 | 23494 |
| Dionysiou | 23687 | 23686 |
| Koutloumousiou | 23226 | 23731 |
| Pantokratoros | 23880 | 23685 |
| Xeropotamou | 23251 | 23733 |
| Zographou | 23247 | 23247 |
| Dochiariou | 23245 | 23245 |
| Karakalou | 23225 | 23746 |
| Philotheou | 23256 | 23674 |
| Simonopetra | 23254 | (23750) 94098 |
| St. Paul's | 23741 | 23355 |
| Stavronikita | 23255 | 23255 |
| Xenophontos | 23633 | 23631 |
| Grigoriou | 23668 | 23671 |
| Esphigmenou | 23229 | |
| St. Panteleimonos | 23252 | 23252 |
| Konstamonitou | 23228 | 23228 |
| SKETE NAME | TEL. NO. | FAX NO. |
| Prodromos | 23294 | |
| St. Anne's | 23320 | |
| Little St. Anne's | 23321 | |
| Kafsokalyvia | 23319 | |
| Katounakia | 23368 | |
| Karoulia | 23342 | |
| Kerasia | 24039 | |
| Skete of Iviron | 23296 | |
| Skete of Koutloumousiou | 23259 | |
| Skete of Pantokratoros | 23304 | |
| New Skete | 23656 | |
| Lakkou | 23636 | |
| Skete of Xenophontos | 23301 | |
| Skete of St. Andrew | 23810 & 23824. | |
| St Basil's | 23317 | |
| Provata | 23216 | |
| Supplementary List of Useful Numbers for Travellers to Mt. Athos
supplied by a member of FoMA | ||
Alexander (Golitzin), Hieromonk, The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain: Contemporary Voices from Mount Athos (South Canaan, PA, 1996).
R. Byron, The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men (London, 1931; repr. 1984).
C. Cavarnos, Anchored in God: An Inside Account of Life, Art and Thought on the Holy Mountain of Athos, 2nd edn. (Belmont, MA, 1975).
----, The Holy Mountain (Belmont, MA, 1973).
M. Choukas, Black Angels of Athos (London and Brattleboro, VT, 1935).
T. Curnow, Pantocrator: An Introduction to Orthodoxy (Newcastle, 2007).
F. da Costa, Florilège du Mont Athos (Paris, 2005).
R.M. Dawkins, The Monks of Athos (London, 1936).
N. Fennell, The Russians on Athos (Bern, 2001).
R. Gothóni, Paradise Within Reach: Monasticism and Pilgrimage on Mt Athos (Helsinki, 1993).
___ , Tales and Truth: Pilgrimage on Mount Athos Past and Present (Helsinki, 1994).
F.W. Hasluck, Athos and its Monasteries (London, 1924).
S. Kadas, Mount Athos: An Illustrated Guide to the Monasteries and their History (Athens, 1984).
S. Loch, Athos: The Holy Mountain (London, 1957).
Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou), Metropolitan, Mount Athos: The Highest Place on Earth (Athens, 2007).
S. Papadopoulos (ed.), Simonopetra, Mount Athos (Athens, 1991).
P. Sherrard, Athos, the Mountain of Silence (London, 1960).
___ , Athos: The Holy Mountain (London, 1982).
Graham Speake, Mount Athos Renewal in Paradise (New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 2003)
P. Theocharides et al., Greek Traditional Architecture: Mount Athos (Athens, 1992).
The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi: Tradition - History - Art, 2 vols. (Mount Athos, 1998),
Treasures of Mount Athos. Exhibition Catalogue (Thessaloniki, 1997).
T. Ware, The Orthodox Church, 2nd edn. (London, 1993).
For further reading, see our list of Books of Athonite Interest: A List of Books Reviewed in the FoMA Annual Reports or Reported by Members of the Friends of Mount Athos
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