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Lechovo Folklore Museum

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Apart from the ecclesiastical exhibits, visitors may see traditional women’'s costumes, both for official occasions and for everyday wear, a shepherd's cape of waterproof goat's hair, belt-buckles for the local costumes and for priests, and weaponry used during the
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is a historic village on the Kastoria–Amyndaio road, near the Kleissoura pass. In 1977, the Prophet Elijah Association of Lehovites started to collect artefacts of folk culture and ecclesiastical objects and to put together its
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collection. Since 1980, the collection has been housed in a renovated historic building just off the main square, which is now the
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and Christ from the Church of Agios Demetrios (1763), an icon of St Constantine and
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A classic loom, woven textiles, and domestic utensils and appliances
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with twelve smaller representations, an icon of the
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Lechovo
folklore
ecclesiastical
altar
icon
St Demetrios
Virgin Mary
St Helen
Elijah
gospels
antimension
chalices
menaia
Venice
chancel screen
Macedonian Struggle
farriery
Museums of Macedonia
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A classic loom, woven textiles, and domestic utensils and appliances
Ecclesiastical exhibits
Traditional women’s costume for official occasions
Ecclesiastical book printed in Venice in 1680
40°35′03″N 21°29′32″E / 40.5841°N 21.4922°E / 40.5841; 21.4922
Category
Folk museums in Western Macedonia

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