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Update: added a few more photos.
A few friends and I just got back from a short pilgrimage to St. Dumitru’s Romanian Orthodox Monastery in Middletown, NY (about two hours from Albany).
This was my first time in a monastery — I really enjoyed it. The church and monastery grounds were beautiful, and the services were prayerful and somber. Although we missed the myrrh-streaming Holy Theotokos Iveron Icon, the analogion it had rested on was thoroughly soaked with extremely fragrant myrrh and we had the blessing of venerating that.
If you have an opportunity to visit this monastery, go. The atmosphere was full of grace and I’m already looking to return for a longer stay. The wood carvings and iconography are breathtaking:
