It stands on the north-eastern side of the Athos peninsula, and is dedicated to the Transfiguration of Our Lord.

[1] By the end of the 15th century, the Russian pilgrim Isaiah confirms that the monastery was Greek.

Thirteen fathers from the Athonite monastery of Xenophontos were permitted to move in, and priestmonk Vissarion was elected as abbot.

He died shortly after resigning the abbacy in 2001, and priestmonk Gabriel was elected to succeed him.

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