We invite you to help the MOUNT ATHOS Preserving & Promoting FOUNDATION OF AMERICA Understanding of the in its efforts. Monastic Communities You can share in this effort in two ways: of Mount Athos 1. DONATE As a 501(c)(3), MAFA enables American taxpayers to make tax-deductible gifts and bequests that will help build an endowment to support the Holy Mountain. 2. PARTICIPATE Become part of our larger community of patrons, donors, and volunteers.

Become a Patron, OUr Mission Donor, or Volunteer! www.mountathosfoundation.org MAFA aims to advance an understanding of, and provide benefit to, the monastic community DONATIONS BY MAIL OR ONLINE of Mount Athos, located in northeastern Please make checks payable to: Greece, in a variety of ways: Mount Athos Foundation of America • and RESTORATION PRESERVATION Mount Athos Foundation of America of historic monuments and artifacts ATTN: Roger McHaney, Treasurer • FOSTERING knowledge and study of the 2810 Kelly Drive monastic communities Manhattan, KS 66502 • SUPPORTING the operations of the 20 www.mountathosfoundation.org/giving monasteries and their dependencies in times Questions contact us at of need [email protected] To carry out this mission, MAFA works cooperatively with the Athonite Community as well as with organizations and foundations in the United States and abroad.

To succeed in our mission, we depend on our patrons, donors, and volunteers. Thank You for Your Support The Holy Mountain For more than 1,000 years, Mount Athos has existed as the principal pan-Orthodox, multinational center of monasticism. Athos is unique within contemporary Europe as a self- governing region claiming the world’s oldest continuously existing democracy and entirely devoted to monastic life. The Holy Mountain has a total population Who We Are of some 2,200 monks, most of whom follow Results the coenobitic (“community life”) tradition, which brings monks into communities for The Mount Athos Foundation of America living, working, and worshipping together. Your support will help in our efforts to: (MAFA) was founded by a group of American Others follow the eremitical tradition, living • PRESERVE Mount Athos as a place members of The Friends of Mount Athos (FoMA) as hermits. They all share a dedication to of pilgrimage, an oasis of peace and who wanted to establish a US non-profit, public unceasing prayer and an abiding love and spirituality in an increasingly chaotic benefit corporation to support the monastic concern for their fellow human beings. world community of Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain. • SAFEGUARD the unique architectural Many of our volunteers come from the American Map of 1 Ag Andreas 12 Katounakia 2 Timiou Prodromou 13 Kerasia heritage from wear and natural disaster membership of FoMA. Our patrons and donors Mount Athos 3 Bourazeri 14 Mikris Ag Annas 4 Ag Panteleimonos 15 Morphonou 5 Pro ti Ilia 16 Mylopotamos come from all over the United States. Working 6 Axion Estin 17 Prodromos • CONSERVE the libraries, treasures, 7 Nea Skiti 18 Provata together, we strive to: 8 Lakkoskiti 19 Ag Annas and archives for the next millennium of 9 Evangelismos 20 Ag Vasiliou 10 Kafsokalyvia 21 Vigla monastics, pilgrims, theologians, • this monastic holy land as a 11 Karoulia 22 Bogoriditsa PROTECT Esphigménou Hilandar and scholars pilgrimage site for all branches of Eastern Vatopedi

Orthodox Christianity and all people seeking Zographou • MAINTAIN the ancient pathways,

the spiritual renewal to be found there 22 bridges, forests, and farms so that Mount Konstamonitou 5 Pantokratoros 6 Dochiariou 3 Athos will truly remain the “Garden of 1 Stavronikita • SUSTAIN everything that makes this Xenophontos KARYES 9 2 Koutloumousiou the Panagia” UNESCO World Heritage Site unique 4 Iviron Ag Panteleimonos 16 Xeropotamou Philothéou Karakalou • FOSTER study, understanding, and DAPHNI 18 15 8 appreciation of the history, religious culture, Simonopetra Become a Patron, arts, architecture, natural history, and literature Monasteries Grigoriou Dionysiou MOUNT Donor, or Volunteer! Sketes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 kilometres Ag Pavlou Megisti of the monasteries and monastic dependencies ATHOS Lavra 1 2 3 4 5 miles 7 14 19 Mount Athos www.mountathosfoundation.org 21 11 17 12 10 20 13