Reference profile
- Type
- monastery
- Order
- #1
- Greek name
- Ιερά Μονή Μεγίστης Λαύρας
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Great Lavra
Great Lavra is one of the twenty monasteries that form the monastic community of Mount Athos. Its position in the traditional order is 1. This Atlas profile intentionally separates stable reference facts from variable visit information.
Evidence current
Sources and verification
confirmedEvidence A
Mount Athos is organised around twenty monasteries; institutional, heritage and independent reference sources corroborate the twenty-monastery structure.
- Mount Athos — UNESCO World Heritage CentreUNESCO World Heritage Centre · intergovernmental
- Information for pilgrims to Mount AthosMount Athos Center · institutional
- The Sacred Monasteries of Mount AthosMount Athos independent guide · independent-specialist
Verified: 2026-09-14 · Review after: 2027-09-14
Editorial profile
Identity and order
This profile confirms Great Lavra as one of the twenty monasteries of Mount Athos and places it at position #1 in the traditional Athonite order.
Distinctive reference focus
Oldest in the traditional order and historically associated with the consolidation of organised cenobitic monastic life on Athos.
Pilgrim lens
Use this page to understand identity, traditional order and source-backed context. It is not a live availability page and it does not imply that the monastery can receive a pilgrim on a specific date.
Evidence boundaries
Mount Athos Center confirms the monastery within its institutional pilgrim information, UNESCO provides heritage context, and the independent specialist overview supplies the distinctive monastery-level reference focus. Visit availability, lodging, transport and feast-day arrangements are excluded unless separately reviewed.
Related Atlas entities
Information limits
Operational details such as access, transport, accommodation and availability are not inferred from this stable reference profile.