761 – historical pictures

Posted on April 6, 2009 by athosweblog

Karyes_1883
1883: A rare picture of laymen in Karyes: look at the ‘fez’-hats and the (very) young boy at the right.

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1913 – Easter celebrations on Athos: the first after the Turks left.

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appr. 1900: Serdarides

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1896: Simonospetra after the fire

Priest_monk_skiti_anna_18951950
Priest-monk of Skiti Annis with a very long beard (1895-1950)
Thanks to this Belgian Blog from mr CHRISTIAAN BIESBROECK.
Wim, 6/4

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1 Response to 761 – historical pictures

  1. Vasilis says:
    April 9, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    Some (13) historical pictures about Agion Oros you may also find in the photo-archive of Life Magazine. Thanks to a cooperation between Google and Life is this archive now online: http://images.google.com/images?q=athos&q=source%3Alife

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