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Kalopanayiotis Sights

icon museum

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  • Address
    • Kalopanayiotis Agios Ionnis Lambadistis Monastery
  • Hours
    • 09:30-17:00 Mar-May, 09:30-19:00 Jul-Sep, 10:00-15:30 Oct-Feb

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As part of the Agios Ionnis Lambadistis Monastery, there is also an icon museum. The main display is the collection of 15 icons, discovered in 1998, that date from the 16th century. As the informative and enthusiastic guide will tell you, the icons stood underground for many years, buried when the Orthodox priests ran from the invading Ottomans. Some of these icons went on tour in London in 2001.

The iconostasis (the screen holding the icons) has its top covered in carvings of the ferns that grow in abundance by the river in Kalopanayiotis, showing its local origins.

 

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