St. Panteleimon Monastery

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Saint Panteleimon Monastery (; ), also known as Rossikon (; ) or New Russik (), is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos, located on the southwestern side of the peninsula in Northern Greece. It is the Russian monastery on the peninsula. It houses exclusively Russian monks, sent by the Russian Orthodox Church, and the liturgies are served in Russian, despite the fact that all monks on Mount Athos eventually become citizens of Greece. Read more on Wikipedia

type: monastery
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