His All Holiness, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
The presence and blessing of the work of the Mount Athos Center by the Great and Holy Church of Christ
His All Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew warmly and stably supports and blesses the steps taken, the activities and initiatives of the Mount Athos Center, by visiting its establishment and its exhibits in Greece and abroad. He sends his greetings and blessings for all the publications and events.  

The Mount Athos Center is housed at the historic building on 109 Egnatia Street, known as the Nedelkos Mansion, a work of the noted architect Xenophon Paionidis (1909), which was granted to the City of Thessaloniki.

The present functions and services of the Mount Athos Center are currently housed in this building, including the bookstore, the archives and its book stock, as well as the pilgrim’s office of Mount Athos.

The exhibition hall, a fully-equipped and ‘state-of-the-art’ space that can host every type of artistic exhibition and events, is located in the first floor of the building.

The Mount Athos Center is run by a governing body of Board of Directors, consisting of seven members presided over by the Mayor of Thessaloniki (ex officio).  The council has an honorary president, the current Overseer of Mount Athos, three members who are appointed by the Council of the Municipality of Thessaloniki and three members who are representatives from the Holy Community of Mount Athos.  The position of vice president is held by one of the council members from the Holy Mountain.  In the event of the absence of the president, he is represented by one of the appointed members from the city council of Thessaloniki.

The Board of Directors has the responsibility of governing the organization;- planning its programs, projects, and events,- and maintaining correspondence and relations with Mount Athos and the entirety of its institutions and organizations in Greece and abroad.

The composition of the current Board of Directors for the five-year period 2024-2028 is as follows:

President: Stylianos Angeloudis, Mayor of Thessaloniki

First Vice President: the Very Reverend Elder Ieronymos, Hieromonk of Simonopetra

Second Vice President / Deputy President of the Board of Directors: Vasileios Gakis, Deputy Mayor of Culture, Tourism Development & Intermunicipal Cooperation of the Municipality of Thessaloniki

Ordinary Members:

• The Very Reverend Elder Efthymios, Monk of Zographou
• The Very Reverend Elder Chariton, Hieromonk of Docheiariou
• Panagiotis Avramopoulos, Advisor to the Mayor of Thessaloniki
• Nikolaos Makrantonakis, former Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Thessaloniki

• Hieromonk Paul Xeropotaminos
• Hieromonk Joseph Karakallinos
• Monk Nikephoros Philotheitis
• Efthymios Hatzitheoklitos, Deputy Mayor of Social Policy, Solidarity and Welfare of the Municipality of Thessaloniki
• Panagiotis Tamvakis, councillor of 1^st Municipal District of the Municipality of Thessaloniki
• Nikolaos Zisis, former district councillor of the Municipality of Thessaloniki

The Staff of the Mount Athos Center

Anastasios Ntouros, Director

Maria Gianelou, Head of Finance & Administration

Evangelos Tsikouras, Head of the Bookstore

Christos Dokalis, Publicity department of Mount Athos Center

Zoi Gounari, Administrative support

Ioanis Liapis, Administrative support

Kyriaki Athanasiadou, Bookstore clerk

George Beloubasis, Bookstore clerk

Katerina Paradisi, Cleaning services 


Contractors

Anna Tanaskou, Accountant (tax consultancy-accounting firm "I.DOVELOS CONSULTING-FOROTECHNIKI IK")

Sophia Pitsiounis, Legal Advisor 

Andrew Hendry Translations

Konstantinos-Demetrios Argyropoulos / WebCat Digital media support

The Mount Athos Center 

The “Mount Athos Center” is an urban-non-profit organization, founded in 2000 by the Municipality of Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Holy Community of Mount Athos. The Center essentially forms the institutional continuation and the natural “evolution” of the monumental exhibition “Treasures of Mount Athos”, held in 1997, within the framework and under the auspices of “Thessaloniki: Cultural Capital of Europe”.

The Center is located in the heart of the city, at the historic Nedelkos Mansion, on 109 Egnatia Street, a building which was donated by the City of Thessaloniki for the Center's activities.

The Mount Athos Center is run by a governing body of Board of Directors, consisting of seven members presided over by the Mayor of Thessaloniki (ex officio).  The council includes an honorary president, the current Overseer of Mount Athos, three members who are appointed by the Council of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, and three members who are representatives from the Holy Community of Mount Athos.  The position of First Vice President is held by one of the council members from the Holy Mountain.  

The Aims of the Mount Athos Center 

as they are described in its charter, are the following:

1. The utilization and proper management of the preserved building of the former Nedelko Clinic, property of the Municipality of Thessaloniki located on 109 Egnatia Street, where the exhibits of religious-worship and artistic value are to be housed, along with articles that comprise the functional continuation of the Exhibition “Treasures of Mount Athos.”
2. The organization and function of exhibits, which will display the long monastic tradition of Mount Athos, the role, of Orthodox Monasticism in general, its historical and cultural path,  the great spiritual and cultural heritage and the contemporary mission of Mount Athos.
3. The organization of a library with all the publication the possible, Greek and foreign publications, pertaining to Mount Athos, Orthodox Monasticism, and Byzantine Culture.
4. The organization of conferences, talks, symposia and other such events which will support and demonstrate the aims of the Mount Athos Center.
5. The publication of scientific studies, monographs, catalogues, reprints etc. from the libraries of the Holy Monasteries and other Athonite establishments, the events of the Mount Athos Center or the on-sight collaborations and requested studies.