The Byzantine Church of Agia Kiriaki, in Apiranthos, Naxos, won the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award, for its unique frescoes dating to the 8th and 9th century, in category “Conservation”. According to the announcement of the European Commission, apart from the wall paintings of Agia Kyriaki which were restored with the cooperation of Greek and Swiss organizations, the same prize was awarded to the restoration of the apse mosaic...

Tasoula Hadjitofi was just a child when the Turks invaded her homeland Cyprus. As bombs kept falling, she remembers her mother, her guardian angel, reminding her that she should not be afraid of the bombs or anything else in her life, as long as she would have her family and her faith. Soon thereafter, Tasoula took the road of exile as a refugee. Decades later she is a successful businesswoman...

With postgraduate studies lasting 3 years, the Prince’s Foundation, School of Traditional Arts in the United Kingdom, under the protection of Prince Charles, offers to those who are interested the possibility to be trained essentially and in depth to the art of icon painting, while frequent introductory seminars give the opportunity to get acquainted with traditional icon painting, its historic journey and its significance in the religious faith. In the introductory...

The consecration (inauguration) of the chapel of Saints Constantine and Helen in Imvroswas an opportunity for the true side of the coexistence between Greeks and Turks but also of alignment of the religions of these two communities to become known to the Greeks. Imvros is the birthplace of the Ecumenical Patriarch and the residents who have started returning to the island after decades away from their homeland, have dedicated a...

With the imaginative title «Onion Cupolas in Landscape. Orthodox churches and chapels of Estonia», the periodical photographic exhibition of the Embassy of Estonia in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, presents the history of Estonian church architecture and with it the history of Orthodoxy in the country. Orthodox churches were reconstructed in Estonia after the 11th century when Orthodoxy arrived in the eastern parts of the country, at a time when...

The Theodosius Cistern reopened after 8 years of restoration works and is ready to operate again as a museum. The Cistern is a closed water storage tank in Istanbul with a capacity of 11,250 m2, which was constructed during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II. It has 32 marble columns of Corinthian and Doric order, which indicates that is was potentially built during different times of the Empire. Its shape...

The rescue of the Cyclades monuments includes among the impressive archaeological finds and dozens of works from the Byzantine and post-Byzantine period, monuments and artifacts of remarkable historical and artistic value. These artifacts are included, among others, in the exhibition which is organized by the Byzantine and Christian Museum, the French School at Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades. The works which are exhibited present the unique cultural...

The construction materials of the burial bed, that was recently discovered on the occasion of the renovation of the Sacred Canopy by a team of Greek scientists, which date back to the Roman Empire era, demonstrate the authenticity of the "myth" of the Sacred Canopy, which has survived even after its complete destruction about 1,000 years ago. In the centuries that followed the burial of Jesus and the creation of...