Agios Neophytos Ecclesiastical Museum - Tala Village

The Agios Neophytos Monastery is located near the village of Tala, about 10 kilometres north of Paphos. The Agios Neophytos Ecclesiastical Museum is located in the East Wing of the Monastery.

The museum was made in order to protect its treasures, as well as make them available to visitors. It is made up of two parts. The first part is completely ecclesiastical, where icons, holy relics, manuscripts, old documents and church clothes dated from the 12^th until the 12^th and19^th century are on display. The second part is non-ecclesiastical in which vessels from the Geometrical and Archaic period in Cyprus (900-600 B.C) are on display.

Visitors enter the museum through a stairway built at the north part of the east wing. In this part there are icons of small dimensions mainly of the 19^th century.

There is only one icon of large dimensions that is of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus Christ on her knees. This icon is dated to 1884.

The entrance is separated from the 1^st room with a large case in which a wooden altar of 1864 is on display , along with Holy Glasses and Holy Trays of the 19^th century , wooden carved crosses and other Holy  items of the 18^th and 19^th century.

The first room displays some very important icons that are dated to 1183. There are also icons of the 16^th century. The second room exhibits two pairs of altar doors that are dated to the 18^th century. There are also many icons of the 16^th, 17^th, 18^th and 19^th century. There are six incenses on display, the oldest one dated to 1691 and the newest one dated to the beginning of the 2^nd century. In the same room, there are various golden plated gospels, manuscripts and old documents. The oldest manuscript is dated to the end of the 12^th century. There is also a manuscript that is dated to the 16^th century.

The third room exhibits icons and small pieces of art. The most important icon is the Panagia Engleistriani which is dated to the beginning of the 16^th century. The fourth room has icons of Agiou Neophytou, the Great icon of the Virgin Mary, as well as rods of the 18^th and 19^th century.

Once the visitor leaves from this room, the visitor enters the great room towards the west in which the Geometric and Archaic period vessels are on display, and leaves from the built stairs at the north part of the Museum.