St. Barbara Orthodox Monastery is a women's monastic community of the Diocese of the West of the Orthodox Church in America. The Monastery was founded in 1992 and has been located in Santa Paula, California, since late 2005.  The Sisters maintain a regular cycle of daily liturgical services and partly earn their living by giving retreats, writing, teaching, production of iconography, notecards and greeting cards, and the operation of a small bookstore and online gift shop.

(Our community before Oct. 22, 2009. Updated photo to follow soon.)

***August 23, 2010 Read our August newsletter and join us for our next Friends Gathering this Sunday, Aug. 29, at 4pm where our guest speaker will be Dr. Stephen Lloyd-Moffett. Please bring your used books with you to contribute to our first ever Used Book Sale. You may want to purchase a few books while you're here to replenish your shelves!

***July 19, 2010 For all the latest monastery news, please read our July Newsletter. Our next Friends Gathering will be this Sunday, July 25th, 4pm. Rt Rev Archimandrite Meletios, abbot of St John of San Francisco Monastery, will be our guest speaker. We welcome you to join us and bring a friend!

***June 23, 2010 Our June Newsletter is now available here.

***May 31, 2010  Love to read to kids? Are you a mom, entrepreneur or storyteller? Consider joining this exciting storytelling program brought to you by Mother Melania and The Benefactory.

***May 31, 2010 Our Sisters at Holy Assumption Monastery have published their very own monastery newsletter. Access their June Newsletter here.