Historian and architectural expert William Brumfield discovers one of the most remarkable sites in the Russian north. Great Solovetsky Island. Transfiguration Monastery. Northwest view from ...

The archipelago's first known Russian settlement dates from 1429 when the monk Zosima joined forces with Herman, an illiterate hermit who had periodically visited Solovetsky Island. The elderly Zosima ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DENVER -- A new court filing states that a $65,000 judgment against the founder of a little-known monastery southeast of Buena Vista now has been satisfied. Holy Transfiguration Monastery of Brookline ...