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Iviron Monastery (Athos)

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[[Image:Portaitissa.jpg|thumb|left|[[Panagia Portaitissa]]]]
The monastery is noted for many of its architectural features, including the columns in the nave, the post-Byzantine [[iconostasis]] of wood, the carved door into the inner narthex, and the katholikon frescos. Especially of note is the seven-branched silver lampstand that was presented by the people of Moscow in 1818 to [[Archimandrite]] Cyril for his monastery. The lampstand is shaped in the form of a lemon tree with thirty glided gilded lemons on it. Additionally, Iviron houses one of the richest and most valuable collection of investments and treasures among the communities on Mount Athos.
The monastery also has a library of over 15,000 printed books as well as more than 2,000 parchment manuscripts and other codices, including some one hundred Georgian language parchment texts. The library also holds a number of documents from the early imperial and patriarchal periods including a number of chrysobulls.
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