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Athos – Agios Oros
Category Archives: 09 Sografou
1937 – May 2017: the flight over Athos
This year I booked a flight above the peninsula of Athos to take aerial pictures. Because of busy times at work I was not able to sort out all the pictures, that’s why it took some time to share them with … Continue reading
Posted in 01 Lavra, 02 Vatopedi, 03 Iviron, 04 Chilandariou, 05 Dionysiou, 06 Koutloumousiou, 07 Pantocratoros, 08 Xiropotamou, 09 Sografou, 10 Docheiariou, 11 Karakallou, 12 Filotheou, 13 Simonos Petras, 14 Paulou, 15 Stavronikita, 16 Xenofontos, 17 Grigoriou, 18 Esfigmenou, 19 Panteleimonos, 20 Konstamonitou, trip 2017
Tagged aerial view, flight
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1905 – new Bulgarian documentary film about Athos: “The Garden of Theotokos”?
Last week I received an email from Silvia Stoyanova, producer of PavloFFilms. This is what she wrote to me to promote their new film about Athos: “Our film is made for a wider audience as from the start we decided that we … Continue reading
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Tagged axion estin, Bulgaria, documentary, easter, procession
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1882 – winter on Athos!
It keeps on snowing on the Holy Mountain: many beautiful and rare photo’s appear on the internet, such as these from Karyes and the Protaton and the Holy Epistatia building:and the main road and hotel in Karyes, with large icicles! Here … Continue reading
1875 – Merry Christmas!
Photo I.M. Sografou 25/9/2013 Wim, Herman and Bas, 25/12/2016
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1866 – The origin of the Sografou guesthouse
It took me some time to find out where on The Holy Mountain this building and chapel is located. The photo is from 1853. Approximately 30 years later the building is replaced by a similar house which you still can … Continue reading
1834 – Athos film from Dutch pilgrims april 2016
My fellow Athos pilgrim Peter Ariese, who visited Athos in 2011 for the first time together with our group, came back to the Holy Mountain April this year, this time joined by his brother and Albert Hollander, who made this … Continue reading
Posted in 02 Vatopedi, 03 Iviron, 09 Sografou, 20 Konstamonitou, films, Karyes
Tagged dutch pilgrims, Protaton, rain
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1819 – Restoration of the Sografou hospital
Early photograph of Sografou (1867 – 1872). The refectory right in front of the church is not yet build. The houses below the wall are nowadays in ruins and overgrown by vegetation . Above these houses lies a building that … Continue reading
1786 – Twenty monasteries in seven days : Day 6, snakes on the path
This is the 6th episode of seven of the Athos trip done by Goulven Le Goff and his brother Ivonig from Rennes, France made in May 2015. They visited all 20 monasteries in one week. Compared to the epic five … Continue reading
1765 – Between Bulgaria and Serbia. Cosmas revisited (day two, second leg)
Mount Athos is one of the most peaceful places on earth. The turmoil of violent attacks or even war feels far away from the monasteries and the paths that connect them. The brutal outer macrocosm, its violent conflicts and worldly … Continue reading
Athos - Agios Oros 