The Ecclesiastical Museum is expected to start operating soon. Like all museums, it will be housed in two renovated halls with arches, which lie at the floor below the monastery’s complex.
The museum will house a great number of remarkable items and valuable treasures of Orthodoxy, which were saved by earlier generations who in turn passed them on to their descendants.
Church of Holly Cross of Omodos
All these artworks will be exhibited in a specially designed place in the halls and will be presented to the public. This exhibition will contribute significantly to their protection and conservation
Some of the remarkable items to be exhibited are the following:
•Byzantine icons of excellent craft
•Ancient gospels of 1769 and 1728
•Old books, some belonging to monthly editions, from the 16th-19th century. Some old editions include hand-written reminders which are very old
•The golden-embroidered, big Russian Sepulchral
•Big, wooden, graven gilded lamps and stands for the gospels
•Excellently crafted communion cups and other holly vessels like grippers used in the Holly Communion
•Ancient holly canonicals, belt fasteners and clerical belts
•Silver reliquaries etc
Source: Panagiotis Socratous Secretary of the Ecclesiastical Committee
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