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Monastery on a steep-sloped peninsula
March 7, 2010

Simonos Petras Monastery

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Redoubt of the reclusive, Simonos Petras monastery was founded in 1257 more than 800 feet above the Aegean Sea. It is one of 20 monasteries on the steep-sloped Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, a popular pilgrimage site sometimes called the Christian Tibet.


See more photographs from the December 2009 feature story "Called to the Holy Mountain."

Photograph by Travis Dove

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