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Guest space is limited.
Directions: The monastery has moved to new facilities. Directions and information will be updated soon.
The Holy Protection of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Monastery was founded in1993 by Archimandrite Ephrem of Philotheou Monastery on Mt. Athos. The Abbess, Gerondissa Olympiada, is an iconographer from the Holy Monastery of the Archangel Michael in Thasos, Greece.
The monastery has moved to new facilities. There is a small gift shop of religious books and items handmade by the sisters, including: mounted icons, beeswax candles, favors for baptisms, censers, prayer ropes, and various other religious items. There are 12 monastics and novices in residence.
The feast day for the monastery is on October 1st (The Feast of the Holy Protection).