worked and welcomed the faithful in a millennium-old monastery carved into a seaside cliff on the Greek island of Amorgos. Starting well before dawn in a tiny, dark chapel, the Orthodox Christian ...

The town is built around a 600-year-old monastery, the oldest in the Khumbu Valley. The two-story Pangboche Monastery is where Mount Everest climbers stop to receive a blessing before they venture ...

High in the Spiti Valley, the 1000-year-old Key Monastery stands as a beacon of Buddhist culture. This fortified monastery, a religious training center for lamas, has withstood invasions and fires.