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Serres Ecclesiastical Museum

Εκκλησιαστικό μουσείο Σερρών

museum in Greece

  • TypeMuseums
  • WhereSerres, Greece
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About Serres Ecclesiastical Museum

The Serres Ecclesiastical Museum (Greek: Εκκλησιαστικό Μουσείο Σερρών "Ψυχής Άκος") occupies the second floor of the Diocesan Headquarters in the town of Serres in northern Greece. It displays a collection of sacerdotal objects which come mainly from the local Monastery of St John the Baptist (Timiou Prodromou) and from churches within the Metropolitanate of Serres and Nigrita.

The exhibits are grouped in four categories: icons, wood-carvings and fragments of chancel screens, metal artifacts, and orphrey, the largest category being the icons, some of which bear the clear hallmarks of the local artistic tradition.

The collection is very important for the history of the religious and artistic life of Serres, Nigrita, and the wider area, because it ably represents artistic trends in, chiefly, post-Byzantine art.

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