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Vouleftiria () is an area of
Mount Athos Mount Athos (; ) is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece directly on the Aegean Sea. It is an important center of Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox monasticism. The mountain and most of the Athos peninsula are governed ...
that belongs to the Monastery of
Great Lavra The Monastery of Great Lavra () is the first monastery built on Mount Athos, on the Athos peninsula in geographical Macedonia, northeastern Greece. It is located on the southeastern foot of the Mount at an elevation of . The founding of the ...
. Located directly downhill from the main area of the
Skete of Saint Anne The Skete of St Anne is a dependent idiorrhythmic (Hermitage (religious retreat), hermitage-style) skete, a monastic community attached to the more formalised Great Lavra in Mount Athos, Greece. It lies on the shore of the Aegean Sea about 800 m ...
, it is served by the port (''arsanas'') of Saint Anne (Agia Anna) (). There are several ''
kellia Kellia ("the Cells"), referred to as "the innermost desert", was a 4th-century Egyptian Christian Christian monasticism, monastic community spread out over many square kilometers in the Nitrian Desert about south of Alexandria. It was one of t ...
'' in Vouleftiria.


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Populated places in Mount Athos Great Lavra {{Greece-Orthodox-monastery-stub