The Tatev Monastery is just one of five UNESCO-listed religious sites worth visiting in Armenia, the world’s first Christian nation. Eric Martin/Figarophoto, Redux Since Armenia’s adoption of ...

The Via di Linari winds through the Apennines, passing abbeys, castles, and mountain towns. Here’s how to hike the Italian ...

Six of the 24 Orthodox Christian monasteries strewn across Meteora, a collection of massive stone pillars and rounded boulders in northwestern Greece, are still active more than 700 years after the ...

High above the Meteora landscape in the central region of Greece, 60 monks and nuns live in fabled monasteries perched on the edge of sandstone peaks. In centuries past, their place of worship brought ...

When you're trying to connect with your god, it helps to find some peace and quiet, if you can. But that was, indeed, no such problem for the architects of these impossibly built monasteries.

In the 16th century, England’s Henry VIII broke with the pope, established the Church of England and named himself ...

The monastic community founded by St Millán in the mid-6th century became a place of pilgrimage. A fine Romanesque church built in honour of the holy man still stands at the site of Suso. It was here ...

I recall once reading that the subject of the Industrial Revolution was like a well-squeezed orange. Not much juice left in it. Yet I constantly come across scholarship adding to what we know about ...

India boasts some of the most ancient gompas (Tibetan Buddhist monasteries) in the world. Some of these monasteries are set amidst the dramatic landscapes of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau.

At least three centuries-old Greek monasteries in the religious enclave of Mount Athos were damaged in an earthquake over the weekend, the culture ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said the ...

From cliff-carved chapels to highland fortresses, these UNESCO-recognized sites bring travelers face to face with 17 ...