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....

• Cancellation of FoMA meeting with Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi Monastery
   
• Follow developments regarding the arrest of Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi Monastery on our Mount Athos News page.
   
• View FoMA letter on behalf Archimandrite Ephraim, abbot of Vatopedi Monastery, to the President and Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic
   
• January is renewal time for FoMA Members!

  You may renew online or if you've misplaced your annual renewal form you may download another.
  

• 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.