IONA ABBEY, founded sometime prior to 1203 on the site where St Columba built his monastery in the sixth century, was built following Ranald Somerled’s invitation to the Benedictine order of ...

Iona (ionahistory.org.uk) is open from 9.30am – 5.30pm April 1 to September 30, to 4.30pm for the rest of the year, and costs £7.10 adults, £5.70 concessions and £4.30 children.

The Iona Community wants to raise £500,000 for the final phase of work to modernise the island's famous abbey.

For over 1,000 years, the tiny sacred isle of Iona – barely three miles long and one mile wide - has symbolised the beating heart of Christian… ...

Even more impressive, the Abbey’s fundraising drive coincided with a successful £2.3 million campaign to rebuild the Iona Village Hall – a vital feature of island life for Iona’s 150 residents.