A Pilgrim's Guide

| Pilgrim's Guide

All visitors to Mount Athos are by definition pilgrims. Whatever your reason for visiting them, the monks will welcome you as a pilgrim. Guiding pilgrims is one of the oldest activities of the Friends of Mount Athos. Just as the proskynetaria -- personal pilgrimage accounts written by pilgrims from the middle ages to early modern times -- guided the pilgrims of the past, so also the FoMA Guide provides today's pilgrims with advice and understanding based on the experience of fellow pilgrims. Unlike those venerable pilgrims' books, however, this Pilgrims' Guide is updated constantly.

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Introduction:	Making Your Visit:	Mount Athos Information:
What is Mount Athos Be a Pilgrim Map	Daphni and Karyes Hospitality on the monasteries Liturgical rhythm and the measurement of time Libraries and treasuries Photography Bathing Extending your visit Languages Distances between monasteries	Foundation and dedication dates of the monasteries An Athos Directory Further Reading Boat Schedules
Planning Your Visit:		Forms and Spellings of Monastery Names:
The climate of Athos Bureaucracy What to take Helping your fellow pilgrims		Explanation of monastery naming conventions Conventions of naming in English

Maintained for the Friends of Mount Athos by: Robert W. Allison
North American Secretary, The Friends of Mount Athos
Dept. of Philosophy & Religion, Bates College
Lewiston, Maine 04240

http://www.athosfriends.org/PilgrimsGuide/