At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky invented a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography (see box text below). Inspired to use ...

With its cluster of small buildings, pond full of fish, and deer who come to graze every day, the property off Route 79 in Windsor looks like any other camp. But most camps don’t have a chapel on site ...

Last Thursday a Boston district court judge ruled in favor of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, finding that a former member, now an archbishop in another Orthodox sect, illegally copied seven of ...

MANILA, Philippines - In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the Monastery of the Transfiguration, a Benedictine community of monks in the hills of Malaybalay, Vicente Jr. R. Barretto mounts “Idyll ...

For the past 38 years, Transfiguration Monastery in Windsor has opened its doors to visitors looking for a break from hectic everyday life to reflect, meditate and renew their spiritual life. And for ...

Despite periods of turbulence, for almost six centuries the religious community of the Solovetsky Islands in Russia's North has provided an important centre of spirituality and pilgrimage In the vast ...

At the Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline, the baker makes braided sweet bread using a centuries-old recipe from Anatolia or Asia Minor. It’s golden, rich with eggs and butter, sprinkled with ...

Looking for an out-of-the-way place to go on retreat? Here are three unique monasteries that welcome visitors for retreats. Holy Transfiguration Monastery (www.monksofmttabor.com) – In a remote forest ...

Bells on Sunday features a carillon from the most northern monastery in the world, the Monastery of the Transfiguration on the Solovki Islands in the Arctic Ocean. During the Soviet period, the ...