Byzantine Museum

Chios


Housed in a 19th-century Ottoman mosque, the Medjitie Djami, this museum contains relics from the Byzantine, post-Byzantine, Genoese and Islamic periods, including old cannons, fine icons, and Jewish, Muslim and Armenian tombstones.


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