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...

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 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...

A big project which had to combine many different science disciplines and Christian faith, was completed with great success and became an interactive, digital exhibition, which virtually transports the monument to the people. The monument is the Sacred Canopy of the Holy Sepulchre and the forces joined are the donors, the scientific personnel and the Christian communities who agreed and worked feverishly for the restoration of the expanding problems of...