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The Alexandroupoli Ecclesiastical Museum houses the collection of ecclesiastic objects that were collected from the churches and monasteries of the Alexandroupoli Metropolis.
The Alexandroupoli Ecclesiastical Museum houses the collection of ecclesiastic objects that were collected from the churches and monasteries of the Alexandroupoli Metropolis. The exhibits date back to the 15th, 16th 17th century.
The Alexandroupoli Ecclesiastical Museum is housed in the Leontarideios school, next to the Metropolis. The collection also contains threefolds, single pages of threefolds, a wooden temple cross, two crucifixes of litany, a picture depicting the Epitaph Weep, two mourning figures and a two fold wood engraved pray text.
Concerning the theme of the museum, the pictures cover the entire span of thr orthodox dogmatic hierarchy. There is a great variety of standardized depictions of Christ, Mary and many saints, who correspond to the Church’s diary of Saints and name days, nut also to the need for leturgic use and adoration. Of special interest are the inscriptions with the names of the painters, dedicators and offerers.
The house he lived in, where he wrote and died, after being destroyed by the WWII bombardments, was later restructured and still exists to this day. In Solomos’s house, the Company of Corfu Studies founded the Centre for Solomos Studies, which operates as “Solomos Museum”.
The Toplou Monastery is historical and dates back to its inception in the 15th century. Collapsed by an earthquake in 1612 and was rebuilt with the financial assistance of the Venetians.
The National Gallery has in its collections more than 17.000 works of painting, sculpture, engravings and other forms of art, and is the treasury of the recent Greek artistic creativity, covering a timespan from the metabyzantine days up to our days.
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