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The Holy Church of the Saints Constantinos and Eleni in the village of Agios Constantinos
The Holy Church of the Saints Constantinos and Eleni in the village of Agios Constantinos

Church of Cyprus - Saints Constantinos and Eleni Holy Church, Agios Constantinos, Limassol

In the village of Agios Constantinos located in Limassol, there is church dedicated to the Saints Constantinos and Eleni. It is a new Church of Byzantine type and is cruciform bearing a dome.

On the roof it bears pointed arches covered with Byzantine styled tiles. It is built with local s...

District: Limassol
The Church of the Saints Constantinos and Eleni was transformed into a chapel
The Church of the Saints Constantinos and Eleni was transformed into a chapel

Chapels in Cyprus - Chapel of Saints Constantinos and Eleni, Agios Constantinos, Great Commandarie, Limassol

In the village of Agios Constantinos located in the Limassol district, there is an old church dedicated to Saints Constantinos and Eleni. It is a single aisled basilica bearing a wooden, pointed and tiled roof. The tiles are flat type.

There are no reports for the year creation. An inscri...

District: Limassol
The Holy Church of Saints Anargyroi, Kosmas and Damianos and Agioi Vavatsinias
The Holy Church of Saints Anargyroi, Kosmas and Damianos and Agioi Vavatsinias

Church of Cyprus - Saints Anargyroi, Agioi Vavatsinias, Mountainous Larnaca, Larnaca

The Orthodox church honours the memory of 3 different pairs of Saints, having the same names, Kosmas and Damianos. All of them were doctors and none of them ever accepted payment for their services. Their only difference, were their origins. Their memory is honoured at different dates.

In...

District: Larnaca
The Holy Church of the Saints Sergios and Vakchos in Kissousa, Limassol
The Holy Church of the Saints Sergios and Vakchos in Kissousa, Limassol

Church of Cyprus - Holy Church of the Saints Sergios and Vakchos, Kissousa, Limassol

We did not find information concerning the church of the Saints Sergios and Vakchos that is found in the village of Limassol called Kissousa.

The church performs liturgies twice a year and quite a few of the ex residents of the village participate at them, who were obliged to move to othe...

District: Limassol
The Holy Church of Agios Artemios of Afaneias and of All Saints
The Holy Church of Agios Artemios of Afaneias and of All Saints

Church of Cyprus - Agios Artemios Afaneias and of All Saints Holy Church, Dali, Nicosia

On refugee exile, and in order to keep the settlers of Afaneia of Ammochostos in touch, the keystone of the Holy Church of Agios Artemios and All Saints had been placed in 2010.

The Holy Church is built on the juncture of the roads Tefkrou Anthia and Idalium.

District: Nicosia
Ioannis Spileotis dug his cave with a small knife
Ioannis Spileotis dug his cave with a small knife

Church of Cyprus - Agios Ioannis Spileotis, Sia

It was about in 700AC when the 300 Alaman monks arrived in Cyprus to preach Christianity. Among them there were three well-known saints, Therapon, Eytichios and Ioannis that has later been renamed to Spileotis.

The three monks, chose an area 3 kilometres north from the Sia village and a l...

District: Nicosia
Agios Dimitrianos church in Dali
Agios Dimitrianos church in Dali

Church of Cyprus - Agios Dimitrianos, Dali, Nicosia

Agios Dimitrianos’ chapel in Dali, is found on our journey from Dali towards Potamia. The area neighbours more with Potamia but its land belongs to Dali.

The Church is a 13th century construction, and in it there are well conserved murals which probably also date in the 13th century. It i...

District: Nicosia
Agios Stylianos Church in Vavla
Agios Stylianos Church in Vavla

Churches in Cyprus - Agios Stylianos - Vavla - Larnaca

A few hundreds of metres before the Agios Minas Monastery, on the road coming from Vavla toward Kato Drys, you will find the Agios Stylianos church.

No one could give us information about this church. If anyone knows anything about it, let them communicate with us and report everything they know.

District: Larnaca
Agios Savvas Holy Monastery in Koronou
Agios Savvas Holy Monastery in Koronou

Churches in Cyprus - Agios Savvas Holy Monastery - Prasteio Paphos

Agios Savvas Holy Monastery in Koronou, was built on the peak of a hill, close to the Diorizos riverside, and in a small distance from the ruined and abandoned Prasteio community in Pafos.

Today only the 12th century Temple is saved. In the next centuries, the monastery sustained transfor...

District: Paphos
Holy Monastery of Agios Antonios in Kerades
Holy Monastery of Agios Antonios in Kerades

Churches in Cyprus - Agios Antonios Holy Monastery - Kerades - Paphos

Just a breath away from the Kerades village, the Holy Monastery of Agios Antonios is found. The constructions found around the place, are ruins of the Monastery and they are dated in the 15th century.

It is said that in the old days, some village man was stealing money from the church. Th...

District: Paphos
Agios Georgios Alamanou Monastery
Agios Georgios Alamanou Monastery

Monasteries in Cyprus - Agios Georgios Alamanou

Agios Georgios Alamanou female monastery, is found on the left side of the Nicosia - Limassol motorway, on the exit for Pentakomo.

The history of this monastery is situated far back in time, during those years where Agios Georgios, one of the three hundred Alaman people that fled to our i...

District: Limassol
Pyrgos tis Rigainas supervises the Cypriot seas
Pyrgos tis Rigainas supervises the Cypriot seas

Pyrgos tis Rigainas - Pervolia - Larnaca

Pyrgos tis Rigainas is found in Pervolia, in Larnaka. I do not know why it is called like that, since there is another one with the same name in the Pafos district and a few other ones in different places in Cyprus.

It is dated during the Venetian occupation of the island. The marks of th...

District: Larnaca