• 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.
  • Great Lavra, hierarchically the first among the twenty monasteries on Mount Athos, lies on the SE end of Athos peninsula.
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  • The Holy Monastery of Great Lavra, or Megisti Lavra, (founded around 963) is on the south-eastern side of the Athos peninsula at a place called Melana, an...
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  • 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. .
  • 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.
  • The Monastery of Megisti Lavra (or Great Lavra) is built on the south-eastern end of the Athos Peninsula and is the earliest and biggest foundation on Mount Athos.
  • Holy Oversight: Great Lavra, Docheiariou, Xenophontos, Esphigmenou. Cenobitic from: 1980. Father Superior: Archimandrite Prodromos (2000).