Welcome to the Friends of Mount Athos Online

Here persons interested in Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain and Garden of the Panagia, may find information about both Mount Athos itself and ways to participate in the activities of the Friends of Mount Athos in their mission of support for the Holy Community of Mount Athos.

What is happening....

• Friends of Mount Athos 2012 Annual General Meeting Saturday, June 16
   
• Friends of Mount Athos 2012 Tolleshunt Pilgrimage, Saturday, July 7
   
• Vatopedi Abbot Ephraim granted conditional release, to return to the Holy Mountain
   
• FoMA scholars Speake and Andipas to present lectures at the Royal Geographical Society's upcoming program, "The Serbian Medieval Cultural Heritage"
   
• New listing on our Books page for FoMA member Norris J. Chumley and John A. McGuckin's Film documentary and book, Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer. (scroll down to the newest items at the end of the Books list)

  Norris J. Chumley is a FoMA member, documentarian and professor, as well as an Emmy Award winning filmmaker. More information on the Books page (scroll down to the newest items at the end of the Books list).
  

• New: Royal Patron for the Friends of Mount Athos
   
• Follow developments regarding the arrest of Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi Monastery on our Mount Athos News page.
   
• Pilgrimage to Serbia: late August, 2012 (exclusively for FoMA members)
   
• FoMA invites you to support its ongoing Hilandar Appeal
  

  The Friends of Mount Athos are raising funds for the relief and rebuilding of Hilandar Monastery following the catastrophic fire of March 4, 2004. Funds raised by the Friends of Mount Athos are contributed directly to the Monastery, proceeds from the current appeal going to the restoration of the Monastery's library.
  

• Humus & Humility

  "Ecological choices are, at their root, not economic or political, but rather cultural and spiritual."
  FoMA member Bryan Cash has produced this stunning on-line photographic exhibition to illustrate the inspiring connection between spirituality and the environment as seen on the Holy Mountain.
  

See our Events Page or visit us on Facebook for additional events, details about upcoming events, and information on our annual Autumn Meetings.

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Header Image: View of the Holy Mountain from a balcony at Stavronikita Monastery, with elements of the katholikon in the foreground.
Photograph by Robert W. Allison, © 2008.