Saving the post-Byzantine legacy of Imbros and Tenedos

The European Center for Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments (ECBCMM) completed 1 of its astir important projects implicit the summer: the conservation of the ecclesiastical instrumentality of 2 churches of Imbros (Gokceada successful Turkish), the birthplace of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and 42 portable icons from the Church of the Virgin Mary of Tenedos (Bozcaada successful Turkish).

“It was the summertime of 2020 and we were connected the land (Imbros) nether the hard conditions of the lockdown to stock the concerns of Metropolitan Kyrillos of Imbros and Tenedos astir the authorities of the religion relics and to measure the contiguous precedence projects,” said Natalia Poulou, president of the halfway and prof of Byzantine archaeology astatine the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

“We recovered important harm to the wood-carved icon stands, pulpits and bishops’ thrones some successful the Metropolitan Church of the Virgin Mary successful Panagia, the island’s capital, and successful the Holy Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary successful Glyky. The rot had begun to devour distant astatine their insides and the grime covered the luster of the wood carvings and paintings,” she told Kathimerini.

The 2 north-east Aegean islands with bulk Greek populations were ceded to Turkey by the Treaty of Lausanne successful 1923.