Church and the Museum of St. Aikaterini

Supposed to be open on a Sunday - No!

We had gone there especially, on a day’s port call from a cruise ship, as on a previous visit to Heraklion we had seen most of the major (excellent) sites and this looked very interesting. All informa...

Church converted to Museum

The Church of St. Catherine of Sinai is in the same square of the Cathedral of St. Minas, and it was built in 1555. Iht was the site of a renowned school of painters and writers during the 16th and 17...

Iconic in the litteral sense

A nice quant museum located in a former church/mosque (during Ottoman occupation) with lots of beautiful icons and religious items. It's located next to the cathedral and -to my opinion- shows a more ...

Small, but interesting

We visited twice. The first time we stopped, a service was taking place so we returned about 90 minutes later. It is small, but interesting.

The place of real masterpieces!

Original Text

Before the reconstruction it was the museum of Orthodox icons. After reconstruction with support from the European Union funds, it became a museum of Christian art. They came last year but it was still closed. Buying in ...