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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 | Chilandari | 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) |
The monasteries of Mount Athos do not currently use e-mail as a regular means of communication with the outside world.
The postal address for any monastery on Athos is
IM stands for Iera Moni ("Holy Monastery")
Telephone and Fax
The area code for Athos is (0) 23770. If calling from outside Greece, the area code and number should be preceded by the access code for Greece (00-30 from Europe, 011-30 from North America). Sample numbers (Vatopedi Monastery:| 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 |
|
| ___________________ | _______ | _______
|
| 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 |
| Chilandari | 23797 | 23108 |
| 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 | 23707 |
| 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 | 23318 | |
| Skete of Iviron | 23296 | |
| Skete of Koutloumousiou | 23259 | |
| Skete of Pantokratoros | 23304 | |
| New Skete | 23656 | |
| Lakkou | 23636 | |
| Skete of Xenophontos | 23301 | |
| St Basil's | 23317 | |
| Provata | 23216 |
Alexander (Golitzin), Hieromonk, The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain: Contemporary Voices from Mount Athos (South Canaan, PA, 1996).
E. Amand de Mendieta, Mount Athos, the Garden of the Panaghia (Berlin/Amsterdam,1972)
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).
J.J. Norwich and R. Sitwell, Mount Athos (London, 1966).
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
About the Friends of Mount Athos go to:
Responses to the Friends of Mount Athos may be sent by e-mail to
Robert W. Allison
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
Bates College
73-75 Campus Avenue
Lewiston, Maine, 04240 U.S.A.
(fax: 207-786-6401)
http://www.athosfriends.org/PilgrimsGuide/guide_info.html