Elona Monastery
Once you go through these gates you are amongst the monastery buildings... you can just see the church tower on the left.
The reason that the monastery was built in such an inaccessible location was that an icon of the Virgin Mary was found on the hilltop above, lit by an oil lamp. No one knows how it got there so it was hailed as a miracle and the church was built just below the place where the icon was found. The illustration on the wall here shows the icon. It can been seen inside the church.
One of ten shots from here.
Elona Monastery
Once you go through these gates you are amongst the monastery buildings... you can just see the church tower on the left.
The reason that the monastery was built in such an inaccessible location was that an icon of the Virgin Mary was found on the hilltop above, lit by an oil lamp. No one knows how it got there so it was hailed as a miracle and the church was built just below the place where the icon was found. The illustration on the wall here shows the icon. It can been seen inside the church.
One of ten shots from here.