St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery (Florence, Arizona)
St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Sonoran Desert outside Florence, Arizona, United States. It was established in 1995 in the name of Saint Anthony the Great and is the largest Orthodox monastic complex in the Western Hemisphere.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Historic Site
- Destination
- Florence
- County
- Pinal County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 47.8 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 35.6
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- stanthonysmonastery.org(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 32.9205, -111.2613
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery (Florence, Arizona) is a historic site near Florence, in Pinal County. It is one of the historic sites in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 47.8 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikipedia(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://stanthonysmonastery.org(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
Nearby attractions
16 miles away
Pinal Geology & Mineral Museum
You can look at minerals and fossilized dino bones. Kids activities.
21 miles away
Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch
Long-standing roadside attraction where you can walk up and feed various critters such as ostriches, lorikeet, deer, tortoises and stingrays. There is also shopping for ostrich products. Monster truck tours of the ranch are held on weekends and holidays.
24 miles away
Ray
Ray is a ghost town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States; it is mostly known for the large copper mine there. It was named after the nearby Ray mine, which was begun by the Ray Copper Company in 1882, after the sister of one of the miners, whose name was Bullinger. The town of Kearny was founded by the Kennecott Mining Company in 1958 as a planned community to accommodate the populations of Ray, Barcelona and Sonora, which were about to be enveloped by Kennecott's copper mine.