Completely destroyed by a fire that broke out at midnight yesterday, a building of the early 20th century in the location “Chania” of Kalloni Lesvos, which primarily housed the activities of the Kalloni Cultural Centre “Arisvi Club”.
The building owned by the Mumtzi Foundation, a foundation with the aim of supporting the Kalloni Primary School, also housed the Kalloni Amateur Theatre Club (ETHOK) and the club’s cloakroom, the Kalloni Hunting Club and the offices of the Aegean Writers’ Union, as well as the activities of the chess club.
Along with the building according to the President of the Cultural Center of Kalloni “Club Arisvi” Aristovoulos Eleftheriou “were ashes 6.5 thousand volumes of rare books, many of which were published since the early 1700s, thousands of manuscripts and papyri, with recorded history mainly of Kalloni, but also of Lesvos and modern Greece.
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Important paintings, symbols, original statutes of the association’s foundation and manuscripts from the year 1905 were burnt.
In short, the recorded history of our place was burnt. The historical building that hosted intellectual works, lectures, presentations and works of people of the spirit, arts and science, speeches of political leaders, prime ministers, military men of the turbulent times of our country, religious leaders and ordinary people of the region was burnt.
It should be noted that the halls of the Kalloni Cultural Centre “Club Arisvi” were closed since the beginning of April and were due to reopen in September.
