Inside This Arizona Desert Monastery, Ornate Chapels Transport Visitors Far Away From Everyday Life

Golden domes are about the last thing you expect to spot rising out of the Sonoran Desert scrub in Arizona. Yet down a quiet desert road, a community of monks has built a place of chapels, fountains, and orange trees that feels like a corner of Greece. Entry and parking are free, and the calm you find there costs nothing at all. It is the kind of easy day trip that sticks with you long after the drive home. A Greek Monastery in the Sonoran Desert © Saint Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery,