MUSEUM - LIBRARY

Amongst the new buildings of the Metochion of Skala stands out the Monastery΄s Museum, in the recently renovated old Abbot΄s quarters, which was inaugurated in 1999 by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

 Its first floor operates today as Library and Study, with many remarkable publications. On the ground floor valuable heirlooms are exhibited. Hidden for three years, in a vault of the old Monastery, they were also preserved thank to the monks΄ provision.

 An epitaph of 1579, many holy relics in elaborate silver cases, carven crosses, icons dating back to the 16th century or later, patriarchal sigilliums, a Russian imperial golden bull of 1692, canonicals of the 18th & 19th centuries, twenty manuscripts (1 parchment and 19 paper) and about one hundred inculabulars and printed books from 1574 to 1900 speak eloquently of the Monastery΄s past and brilliant history, for the tireless works of men that prove in the coming centuries the brilliance of the Christian Orthodox art.