The guides, usually offered to the pilgrim of Mount Athos, relate to its twenty great, royal, patriarchal and sovereign monasteries, and to some of the hermitages, such as Agia Anna and Kausokalyvia. But in the Athonian firmament there are also other spiritual holy foundations, hermitages, cells, huts and retreats, which can offer moral upliftment and spiritual nourishment to the interested pilgrim.

This guide refers to the Holy Skete of Agios Panteleimonos, which belongs to the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousiou, and is located almost in the middle of the Athonian peninsula. We hope that it will become an occasion for the pilgrim of the holy Mount Oros to get to know the humble but dynamic core of Scythian monasticism, which has contributed much and significantly to the development and formation of orthodox monasticism, the truest expression of which is, without a doubt, the Holy Fathers...