Byzantine Museum

   In1840 Athens urban designer Kleanthis in the outskirts of Athens built a palace for the Duchess of Plaisance, this is the Byzantine Museum.
As the name suggests, the the Byzantine museum has exhibits of Byzantine culture, art, daily. The Byzantine period is the second important period of Greek history. Today Greek customs, religion, ideology, national feelings etc., has obvious traces of the Byzantine period.
Into the courtyard, you can see the Cathedral of the early Christian and Byzantine church building debris. In addition, the residual portion of a water wells, the wells originally in the Da Funi monastery, inseted in the Roman style mosaic courtyard.One of the world's largest collection of icons on the left of the museum, Exhibits or in chronological order, or in accordance with the icons category is organized together. The right side of the museum is main icon painting.
The ground floor of the main building of the museum is a theme of the exhibition, it shows the history of the development of the internal architecture of the Christian Church. A reduced old cathedral model of 5,6-century AD in the first chamber, the church is still very obvious has the pattern with the the Roman times Presbyterian Council hall.Different with the Presbyterian Council of the hall in Roman era is the location of the shrine, shrines and monks' seat is split off.The pulpit of this church is a replica of the famous church of Agios Menas in Thessaloniki. In addition, the "Good Shepherd" statue as a symbol of Jesus, are worth a visit.
Pieces of precious Byzantine-era relief in the second chamber. The third chamber shows the gradual rise cross vault structure church of the mid-Byzantine (10,11 century AD).There is one Archbishop seat nearby Constantinople.
The second layer there are some very rare exhibits, such as the first showroom mosaic icons. Its theme is: the mother of God, which is a 14th-century works. In addition, there are many Orthodox Church ceremony used special appliances, handwritten on sheepskin medieval Bible, Bishop gowns, of course, some jewelry. Friends who are interested in the Orthodox Church must take a look at the Embroidered linen towel coverage on the Orthodox Easter ceremony,which symbolizes installed wrapped Jesus .
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