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Welcome to our monastery.      

Please feel free to learn more about the life of our monastery by clicking on the buttons at the top of the page. 

The picture to the left above is what you will see when you drive up to visit our monastery.  The second picture is a semi-formal group shot of our monastic community taken after the Divine Liturgy with two professions and a reception on May 10th, 2008.  (Photo courtesy of Father Anthony Falsarella and used with his permission.  To see more of his photos of our monastery taken on that day, click here: Father Anthony's Monastery Journal

We have 220 acres of pastures, woods, wetlands, and a four-acre  mill pond created over 200 years ago from the Otsdawa Creek.  A number of marked trails allow hiking in good weather and cross-country skiing for those who enjoy winter exercise.  

Our monastery buildings, including the two chapels and the guest house on our millpond, stand because of the labor and gifts of many friends and benefactors.  

We call our life "A call to serve God,

a call to serve the Church..."

(If you click on our name below, you will see the website put up by the Orthodox Church in America, with further information about our monastery, including travel directions.)

Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery 

144 Bert Washburn Road

Otego, NY 13825-2265

(607)432-3179

We are a stavropighial women’s community of the Orthodox Church in America, which means that we are directly under the presiding bishop of the Church, His Beatitude Herman, the Archbishop of Washington and Metropolitan of the United States and Canada.

We fulfill our call through prayer, work and hospitality.

We invite you to join us for a brief visit as a pilgrim, a longer stay as a guest or for a lifetime of monastic sharing in:

"...until we reach the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God; full maturity; the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ..."

Please pray for us, that we may grow only as the Lord wills. May He continue to raise up sisters as well as friends so that the monastery may be a blessed place of prayer and pilgrimage.