The Holy Monastery of Megiste Lavra was the first monastery to be built on Athos and is still the largest.
The Great Lavra governs the other Athos monasteries. It is located
on the southeastern foot of the Mount at an elevation of 160 metres. The
founding of the monastery in AD 963 by Athanasius the Athonite marks
the beginning of the organized monastic life at Mount Athos.
At the
location of the monastery, there was one of the ancient cities of the
Athos peninsula, perhaps Akrothooi, from which the sarcophagi of the
monastery that are in the oil storage house come from. The history of
the monastery is the most complete compared to the history of the other
monasteries, because its historical archives were preserved almost
intact.
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