Ecclesiastical Museum of Alexandroupolis

The Ecclesiastical Museum of Alexandroupolis is housed in the neoclassical, preserved building of the Leonardite School. It was founded in 1976 and, after a brief interruption for maintenance work, it was reopened in 2000. In eight rooms it houses a rich collection of ecclesiastical objects, gathered from the Evros region and covering a period from the 15th to the 20th century. On the ground and first floors of the building are exhibited priestly vestments, liturgical vessels, wood-carved furniture, palaeotypes and historically important refugee relics, which were brought by the inhabitants during the population exchange in 1922.

In each room, visitors can examine the relationship between the Church and society and education in Thrace, collections of woodcarvings and sacred vessels, priestly vestments, covers of the Holy Table and decorative veils, as well as gold-plated vestments of famous hierarchs. Next, he goes upstairs where he will see the icons and contemporary iconographic samples, the differences in styles between Orthodox and Western iconography, the organization of the Hierarchy and concludes the visit in an abstract reconstruction of the church, where there are gathered important exhibits from the Agia Kyriaki of Ainos in Eastern Thrace.