Osiou Gregoriou monastery
is an Orthodox Christian monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in
Greece. The monastery ranks seventeenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite
monasteries.
The monastery is built by
the sea, on the southeastern side of the peninsula. It's close neighbours are
Simonospetros and St Pauls Monasteries. Gregoriou is very much a pilgrim
friendly monastery with a strong pastoral sense. Pilgrim visitors are high and
well provided for. The choir singing is very traditional Byzantine chanting and
is one of the highest standards on Mt Athos, with perhaps only Vatopedi
outdoing it. When one visits Gregoriou and stays there for a few days one can
feel like the monastery is almost completely girt by the sea, built as it is on
a corner of land jutting into the sea, with only steep craggy rocks backed up
behind it.