Icons, faith and unforgettable homelands
The Ecclesiastical Museum of the Holy Metropolis of Alexandroupolis houses the collection of ecclesiastical objects from churches and monasteries of the metropolis. The ecclesiastical objects date mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries. There also old icons of the 15th-16th and 17th centuries on display. The visitor can see icons of altarpiece, portable icons, triptychs, other works of art, as well as inscriptions. A large part of the exhibits come from individual donations or are heirlooms brought by the refugees during their relocation to Greece in 1922. The neoclassical building that houses the Ecclesiastical Museum was built in 1909 and is a donation of the merchant Antonis Leontaridis from Maronia. It used to be a High School until the year 1972.
Next to the Museum there is a monument for the Russians soldiers who liberated the area during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. There are also marble busts of bishops.
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