The global project “Athonite Digital Ark” has been implemented by the OTE telecoms group, on behalf of the Holy Community of Mount Athos. The aim of the project is the preservation and projection of the cultural wealth of the autonomous Orthodox monastic community in northern Greece, through the digitization and documentation of its historical archives and works of ecclesiastical art, as well as their presentation to all of humanity via the Internet.
The “Athonite Digital Ark” is the largest project in Greece in the field of digital culture, and includes countless digitized objects of all types artistic creation and Orthodox Christian art, such as documents, manuscripts, rare books, sculptures, mosaics, portable icons, metalwork and textiles, along religious utensils, vestments, coins and architectural designs – in total, more than 500 hours of audiovisual material, as well as nearly 25,000 pages of modern, original and unpublished material.
The project also created a web portal in five languages: Greek, English, Bulgarian, Russian, and Serbian.
