• The Monastery of Great Lavra (Greek: Μονή Μεγίστης Λαύρας) is the first monastery built on Mount Athos, on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece.
  • The Monastery of the Great Lavra, (Greek: Μεγίστη Λαύρα, Megísti Lávra) is located on the Athos Peninsula in northern Greece.
  • For ten centuries, the Holy Monastery of Great Lavra has been in the first place in the hierarchical ranking of the monasteries of Mount Athos.
  • Great Lavra, hierarchically the first among the twenty monasteries on Mount Athos, lies on the SE end of Athos peninsula.
  • The Great Lavra, also called the Lavra of Athanasios, is monastery located near the southeastern tip of the peninsula of Mount Athos.
  • The great Cretan painter Theophanes and Frangos Katelanos both worked in the Great Lavra - the former in A.D.1535 and the latter in A.D.1560.
  • The katholikon or main church of the Great Lavra was built in 963 and served as a model for the katholikons of the various monasteries that were built later.
  • Holy Oversight: Great Lavra, Docheiariou, Xenophontos, Esphigmenou. Cenobitic from : 1980. Father Superio r : Archimandrite Prodromos (2000).
  • Great Lavra monastery. The first in hierarchy and size is the monastery of Agia Layra. The construction of the building began in 963 by Saint Athanasius the Athonite. .
  • Under the leadership of Saint Savvas, the Great Lavra initially undertook the fight against the heresy of Monophysitism from 512 to 516 A.D...