Stavronikita
Stavronikita Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It is built on top of a rock near the sea near the middle of the eastern shore of the Athonite Peninsula, located between the monasteries of Iviron and Pantokratoros.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monastery
- Description: Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece
- Also known as: “Moni Stavronikita”, “Moní Stavronikíta”, and “Stavronikita Monastery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pantokratoros Monastery and Skete of Saint Panteleimon.
Pantokratoros Monastery
Monastery
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Pantokratoros Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It stands on the north-eastern side of the Athos peninsula, and is dedicated to the Transfiguration of Our Lord. Pantokratoros Monastery is situated 2 km northwest of Stavronikita.
Skete of Saint Panteleimon
Church
The Skete of Saint Panteleimon or Skete of Agiou Panteleimonos, not to be confused with the monastery of the same name, some kilometres away, is a skete of the Koutloumousiou monastery in Mount Athos, Greece. Skete of Saint Panteleimon is situated 2 km southwest of Stavronikita.
Protaton
Church
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The Protaton, also known as the Dormition of the Theotokos Church, is the main church of Karyes, Mount Athos. It also serves as the ecclesiastical seat of the Protos, or the primate of the monastic community of Mount Athos. Protaton is situated 3 km southwest of Stavronikita.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Iviron monastery and Skete of Prophet Elijah.
Iviron monastery
Locality
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The Monastery of Iviron is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece. The monastery was built under the supervision of two Georgian monks, John the Iberian and John Tornike, between AD 980–983. Iviron monastery is situated 2½ km south of Stavronikita.
Skete of Prophet Elijah
Locality
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The Skete of Prophet Elijah is a cenobitic skete of Pantokratoros monastery in Mount Athos, Greece. It was founded in 1759 by Paisius Velichkovsky, a Ukrainian monk from Poltava. Skete of Prophet Elijah is situated 2½ km northwest of Stavronikita.
Stavronikita
- Category: religion
- Location: Mount Athos, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Stavronikita” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Stavronikita-klooster”
- Bulgarian: “Ставроникита”
- Chinese: “斯塔夫罗尼基塔修道院”
- Dutch: “Stavronikita Monastery”
- Finnish: “Stavronikítaksen luostari”
- French: “Monastere de Stavroniketa”
- French: “monastère de Stavroniketa”
- French: “Monastère de Stavroniketa”
- Georgian: “სტავრონიკიტას მონასტერი”
- German: “Stavronikita Monastery”
- German: “Stavronikita”
- Greek: “Μονή Σταυρονικήτα”
- Hungarian: “Sztavronikita kolostor”
- Italian: “Monastero di Stavronikita”
- Korean: “스타브로니키타 수도원”
- Latin: “Monasterium Stauroniceta”
- Macedonian: “Ставроникита”
- Polish: “Klasztor Stawronikita”
- Portuguese: “Stavronikita Monastery”
- Romanian: “Mănăstirea Stavronichita”
- Russian: “Ставроникита монастырь”
- Russian: “Ставроникита”
- Serbian: “Manastir Stavronikita”
- Serbian: “Манастир Ставроникита”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Manastir Stavronikita”
- Slovenian: “Samostan Stavronikita”
- Spanish: “Monasterio de Stavronikita”
- Ukrainian: “Монастир Ставроникита”
- Ukrainian: “Монастир Ставронікіта”
- Ukrainian: “Ставронікіта”
- Western Frisian: “Stavronikita-kleaster”
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