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On Friday 7/20 April, the All-night Vigil for the Feast of Saint John the Apostle took place at the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi. You may listen to the Doxology from the Vigil in the first mode, in a melody of Priest-monk Theofanis Vatopaidinos...
The woman who had fallen into many sins, perceiving Thy divinity, O Lord, fulfilled the part of a myrrh-bearer; and with lamentations she brought sweet-sme...
A presentation at the two-day conference held in Athens on 11-12 December 1999 entitled ‘The Athoniada Academy: 250 years since its establishment’. A monk’s ascetic life is experienced in three diffe...
Monk Moses the Athonite: “Scandal” for me is the non-unity of Holy Mount Athos
17 October 2011

The building complex of the Monastery of Vatopaidi has changed its form many times in its thousand-year history. However, unlike the majority of Athonite monasteries, whose precincts assumed their final dimensions during the 18th and 19th centuries, Vatopaidi (and for that matter, the Megiste Lavra)...
Apart from the walls and the towers which we have described above - and, of course, the katholikon - there are two other surviving buildings of the Monastery which date from the Byzantine era: the Chapel of the Aghioi Anargyroi and the bell-tower. An inscription of 1319/20 incorporated today into th...
From the patria and the copper engravings we learn about the location and the names of the towers of the fortifications and we can identify them without any serious problems. We can recognise eight towers, counting from the north-east corner in circular fashion towards the west: the Tower of Our Lad...
The area in which the Monastery of Vatopaidi is located in the middle of the northern side of the Athos peninsula, in one of the most fertile parts of the Holy Mountain1. It borders on the property of the Monasteries of Pantocrator, Konstamonitou, Zographou, Xenophontos, Docheiariou, and Esphigmenou...
Naturally enough, the ensuring of a water supply and of arable land has always been a condition for the permanent establishment of a monastery in a particular place. The location of a usable quantity of water, and its transportation, storage and distribution was a basic concern for all monastic foun...
In order to meet the basic everyday needs of the monastic community, a mark of which was self-sufficiency9, it was necessary to develop a complex of activities in the space which the Monastery had for production and in the outside world. The farming of the land, forestry, fishing, processing of agri...
Art
The surviving works of monumental painting of the Byzantine period (963-1430) at the Vatopaidi Monastery are confined to the katholikon and the Chapel of the Aghioi Anargyroi*. The picture is completed by some fragments of wall-paintings, the origins of which and the place which they originally occupied in the Monastery are unknown. The katholikon has mosaics and wall-paintings of exceptional artistic quality, while the Chapel of the Aghioi Anargyroi has only wall-paintings. The mosaics of the katholikon - the only ones to have survived on the Holy Mountai...
The archive of the Vatopaidi Monastery, like those of all the Athonite monasteries, al­ready began to form in the period of its foundation1. Documents necessary to safeguard the very existence of the Monastery, its privileges and property began to accumulate as early as the last two decades of the 10th century. The material tended to increase with the passage of the cen­turies as the fame and economic influence of Vato­paidi spread. Thus in the course of its uninterrupted life of more than a thousand years an archive has built up which contains documents in impressive num­bers - which represent what are conventi...