For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a ...

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

Ruins of the Lhakhang of Rongbuk Rongbuk Monastery was founded in 1902 in an area of meditation huts that had been in use by nuns and hermits for over 400 years. Hermitage meditation caves dot the ...

Ukrainian police and government officials have entered the catacombs of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, one of the most significant ...

Monastic life in Sretensky Monastery, closed by the Bolsheviks in 1925, was renewed in 1994, fifteen years ago. It was first re-opened as a metochion of the Pskov-Caves Monastery. The story of the ...

Archaeologists are conducting research on an 11th–17th-century rock monastery in the village of Oksanivka, Vinnytsia region, ...

The monastery holds special significance for Tibetan Buddhists as it is believed Guru Padmasambhava had meditated in the caves around Rizong. Located 73 km from Leh in Ladakh district in Jammu and ...

The monastery holds special significance for Tibetan Buddhists as it is believed Guru Padmasambhava had meditated in the caves around Rizong. Located 73 km from Leh in Ladakh district in Jammu and ...