Eastern & Western Orthodox Monastery, Orthodox Monasteries and Orthodox Monasticism Links
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Orthodox Monastery Websites

• Orthodox Monasteries of North America - Dedicated to the growth of Orthodox Monastic Tradition in the New World - Comprehensive listing by State and Jurisdiction.

• List of Orthodox monasteries and sketes, both male and female, in the United States of America. - Wikipedia

• Orthodox Monasteries Directory - A comprehensive collection of Orthodox monasteries around the world including photographs, addresses, descriptions and contact information

• Mount Athos - The Center of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism & the chief standard bearer of Orthodox Christianity. Greece

• Orthodox Monasteries and Monasticism - from Al Green's Comprehensive Orthodox Website.

• Monasticism- Monachos.net

Orthodox Monasteries With Websites

• Holy Apostles Skete of Nokomis - A monastic hermitage of the monks of New Monjava, part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America. The ministry works with homeless and the suffering. The Abbot is Hieromonk Theophan - the monastery is located in rural Central Illinois.

• Mercy House- St. Mary of Egypt Monastery, New York City, New York

• The Monastery of the Glorious Ascensionon- A cenobitic monastery following the tradition of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Church - Reseca, Georgia

• The Holy Monastery of Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco - established by His Grace the Right Reverend TIKHON, Bishop of the Diocese of San Francisco and the West of the Orthodox Church in America, at Saint Eugene's Hermitage in Point Reyes Station, California.

• Presentation of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Monastery -Women's monastery under the Omophorion of the Bishop of Chicago and the Midwest -Orthodox Church in America.  Located in Northern Ohio.

• Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Monastery - Harvard, Illinois

• Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos Monastery - Greek Orthodox - Reddick, Florida

• Panagia Vlahernon Greek Orthodox Monastery - a male monastic community founded by Elder Ephraim of Mount Athos; located just north of Ocala, Florida

• St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery- Florence , Arizona

• Holy Cross Orthodox Monastery, Castro Valley, California

• Hermitage of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross- West Virginia - The Hermitage of the Holy Cross is an English speaking monastery for men under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.

• The All-Merciful Saviour Orthodox Monastery, - Vashon Island, Washington - A Monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

• The Nuns of New Skete - Monks of New Skete - Cambridge, New York

• St. Isaac of Syria Skete - A small men’s monastery of the semi-eremitical or skete type of monasticism -  Boscobel, Wisconsin

• New Ostrog, the Orthodox Monastery of All Saints of North America, the Saint Maximos Centre for Orthodox Studies, and Synaxis Press - British Columbia, Canada

• Goritsky Monastery - Russia

• An Introduction to Mount Athos

About Orthodox Monasticism

• Monasticism - OrthodoxWiki

• The Monastic Life in the Eastern Orthodox Church - from Myriobiblos, the e-text Library of the Church of Greece

• Monasticism - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

• Russian Inok  ( Now available in an English Version) The purpose of this website is to publish and print materials about ascetisicm, monasticism, the Jesus prayer and spiritual life. The editor of this website is rassaphore-monk Vsevolod (Filipiev), Jordanville, NY, USA.

• A Lesson for Children-- What Do Monks & Nuns Do?

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More Orthodox Monasteries With Websites

• The Holy Protection of the Theotokos - was founded in 1993 by Elder Ephraim, former Abbot of Philotheou Monastery on Mount Athos who also founded 16 other monasteries throughout the United States and Canada. The Monastery’s “Mother House” is the Archangel Michael Monastery on the island of Thasos in Greece. White Haven, PA

• Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Monastery - one of the seventeen monasteries in the United States and Canada under the spiritual guidance of Elder Ephraim.  Harvard, IL

• Holy Myrrbearers Monastery - a monastic community for women of the Orthodox Church in America. Since 1983 in Otsego County in the scenic upper-Catskill region of New York State.

• Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos Monastery - North Carolina - The Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos Monastery is an institution of the Orthodox Church in America under the direct jurisdiction of the Primate, His Beatitude Metropolitan HERMAN.

• St. John The Forerunner Greek Orthodox Monastery - Goldendale, Washington - The monastery supports itself solely by the handiwork of the sisters and donations. They practice the traditional arts of the Orthodox church including: writing Byzantine icons, sewing vestments, knotting prayer ropes, hand-rolling incense, and dipping beeswax candles. They also mount icon prints and make natural soap and lotion and bake traditional Greek food and sweets for their bakery and gift shop.

• Paracletos Greek Orthodox Monastery- Web site of the Sisters of the Paracletos Monastery located in Antreville, South Carolina

• St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery -
  South Canaan, Pennsylvania

• St. Gregory Palamas Monastery - A monastery that is under the authority of Metropolitan Maximos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh, in the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

• The Monastic Brotherhood of St. Theodore - a small monastic community for men in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, under the authority of His Eminence, Metropolitan Maximos, of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and located in Galion, Ohio.

• Dormition of the Mother of GodSouth-Central Michigan.

• Crimean Lavra - The oldest Carthusian monastery in the Christian orthodox world, situated in the Crimea at 2 km from Bakhchisaray, in the Mariampol pass.

• Holy Trinity Skete-Mexico City, MEXICO
  Male Monastic Orthodox Community under ROCOR's Western Diocese.
  Church Services in Greek-Slavonic-English-Spanish. Superior of the Monastery: Rev. Nektary

• Korennaya Hermitage Monastery - The Korennaya Hermitage was established 1597 were the Kursk Root Icon was found in 1295. The monastery was called the Kursk Root Hermitage in honor of the manifestation of the icon at the root of the tree. It's located 30km North of Kursk, Russiaia.

• The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra,

• New Valaam Monastery Website - The official site of the Valaam Monastery-  Valaam Island, Sortavala, Kareliya,  Russia.

• Spaso- Kazan Convent - Pskov, Russia

• Golia Monastery- Romaniaia

• The Monastery of Saint Andrew the First Called, Manchester, England

• BIRTH of the THEOTOKOS MONASTERY - Pelagia

• Our Lady of Balamand Patriarchal Monastery - Monastery belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church - Patriarchate of Antioch - Lebanon

• St. Catherine's Monastery - Located at the foot of Mount Moses in Egypt.
  

• Serbian Orthodox Monasteries of Kosovo and Metohija

• The Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Sergiev Posad - Russia

• The Orthodox Monastery of Saint-Nicolas - France

• St. Peter of Cetinje Orthodox Missionary Brotherhood - (Ecumenical Patriarchate) Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico

• Most Holy Theotokos Orthodox Monastery - Holy Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church In Exile

• The Blessed Seraphim Hermitage

• ORTHODOX MONASTIC COMMUNITIES

• Sretensky Stavropeghial Monastery - Sretensky monastery is one of the most ancient monasteries, being founded in 1397 to commemorate the miraculous event of the meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God.

  

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