What monastery will Madonna visit next?

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Madonna has recently shown interest in pilgrimage-style travel across the Orthodox world, visiting Meteora and Patmos. In 2004, she also visited Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem during her spiritual travels in the Middle East.

Here’s a purely speculative list of 10 Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox sites Madonna could potentially visit next - from the Caucasus and Balkans to Sinai, Ethiopia and Anatolia.

Where will the Queen of Pop serve lewks next?  

 

🇪🇬 St Catherine's Monastery — Sinai - founded in the 6th century on the site where, according to tradition, Moses saw the Burning Bush - maybe she watched the latest season of Euphoria and got inspired 

 

🇷🇴 Voroneț Monastery — Romania — famous for its distinctive exterior frescoes, particularly the deep blue associated with the monastery

 

🇬🇪 Gergeti Trinity Church — Georgia - 14th-century mountain church beneath Mount Kazbek, one of the defining monuments of the Georgian highlands.

 

🇪🇹 Lalibela — Ethiopia - a complex of monumental rock-hewn churches dating to the medieval Ethiopian kingdom

 

🇹🇷 Sumela Monastery — Turkey - old Greek Orthodox monastery carved into a cliff, famed for its frescoes and centuries-old Pontic heritage

 

🇪🇹 Lake Tana Churches — Ethiopia - secluded island monasteries and round churches surrounded by the waters of Lake Tana

 

🇧🇬 Rila Monastery — Bulgaria - Bulgaria’s most important medieval monastic foundation, rebuild after Bulgarian independence

 

🇲🇰 St John at Kaneo, Ohrid — North Macedonia - 13th-century Byzantine church overlooking Lake Ohrid

 

🇽🇰 Visoki Dečani Monastery — Kosovo/Serbia - medieval Serbian monastery combining Romanesque architecture with an extensive Byzantine fresco programme

 

🇦🇲 Khor Virap (Khor Virab) — Armenia - legendary Armenian pilgrimage site linked to St Gregory the Illuminator,  set beneath Mount Ararat