In 794 the Vikings looted Jarrow Abbey and the Isle of Skye; in 795 they made their first raid on Iona Abbey off the western coast of Scotland. A center of Celtic scholarship and culture, ...

The Iona Abbey library has opened to the public after two years of renovation works. The Duke of Argyll opened the Christian library on Saturday, and was joined by representatives from the Church ...

Thanks to the craftsmen who worked at the monastery, Iona has an artistic history dating back to the 7th century. In addition ...

In the early 800s, the monks on Iona relocated to Ireland to avoid such attacks — and they took the manuscript with them. It was then housed for centuries at a monastery in the Irish town of ...

The foundation for Iona’s fame lies in its abbey and, for its origins, we must spin dizzily back in time to 563 AD, when a holy man called Columba arrived from Ireland with 12 companions.

The tiny island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland, is home to what is widely considered one of Scotland's most historic and sacred sites.

Meanwhile, the most famous and historic building on the island is Iona Abbey. Among the oldest Christian centres in Europe, it is often considered to be Scotland's birthplace of Christianity.

Books at this time had to be painstakingly copied by hand, a task often performed by teams of monks. Experts think the Book of Kells was created on Iona in this manner in about A.D. 800 by monks ...