From Greek monastery on island cliffside, prayer lift up wonders of the night sky
For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery, built high into a cliffside on the island of Amorgos. The tall, whitewashed complex is a speck about half-way up the precipitous mountain that plunges into the Aegean Sea. Except for a few small chapels scattered among the rocks, no other structure is in sight — and no light pollution to dim the swirl of stars as it increasingly does around the world. In this picture is seen the cliffside Hozoviotissa Monastery under the starry night sky. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) The facade of the cliffside Hozoviotissa Monastery stands under a star-filled sky . (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) “Here one is closer to God, and bet...
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