Iviron Monastery

Tradition

By tradition, the Mother of God, sailing to visit Lazarus, was driven by a storm to this shore, and Athos became her garden. Pilgrims venerate the icon of the Portaitissa, kept in a chapel by the gate.

Here today

A monastery on the east coast, founded in 979/980 by Georgian monks, as the monastery gives it.

Official site

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Land outlines: Natural Earth (public domain).