Zografou Monastery, Orthodox monastery in Mount Athos, Greece

Zografou Monastery is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery built into a wooded hillside on Mount Athos, ninth in the Athonite hierarchy. Its stone wings from the 18th and 19th centuries enclose a courtyard; the south wing dates perhaps from the early 18th century, the east wing from 1758. The main church of Saint George was built in 1801 and painted in 1817. A carved wooden door has an inscribed panel above the arch and a lantern on a bracket.

Founded according to tradition in 919 by three brothers from Ohrid, Aaron, Moses and John Selima, the monastery was ravaged in 1276 when 26 monks were burned in its tower for opposing the union with Rome. It was restored in 1502 by Moldavian voivode Stephen III the Great, and from 1521 it was stavropegic, directly under the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

The monastery's name means "painter": the icon of Saint George was said to have appeared by itself on a prepared board, and the founders called the saint their painter. Paisius of Hilendar completed his Slavonic-Bulgarian History here in 1762, and the monastery keeps the manuscript original.

The monastery sits 160 meters (525 feet) above sea level on the southwestern coast of Mount Athos and is accessible only on foot. The walk from Karyes, the administrative center, takes approximately 3.5 hours through mountain terrain.

The oldest wonder-working icon of Saint George stands by the column of the right choir in the main church; two further icons there are also held to be miraculous. One, according to tradition, sailed from Arabia, and the other belonged to Serbian ruler Stefan Dušan, who found it after a vision and carried it into battle.