.. Beautiful and impressive frescoes scenes all over the walls and ceiling from the Church... showing the life of the Virgin Mary... there are thirteen scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary painted in the west arch and another two on the west wall... this makes it the most elaborate “life cycle” of the Virgin Mary extant in Cyprus... they have simple straight lines and shiny earth colours... the frescoes are also of great importance because they cover a large part of the history of Cyprus...Thank you Andrene!! ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)
This church is at the southern end of the village of Pelendri. It is a one-aisled type church with a dome. The church was destroyed and the only one rescued was the arch, which was incorporated into a new church of the same type in the 14thC. In the middle of the 14thC, the northern chapel was added to the east with a straight wall instead of an arch, and in the 16thC the southern chapel, which has an arch, was added.
There are frescoes from the 12thC until the 16thC. The main part of the temple was decorated with frescoes of the 14thC, from at least three painters. The palaeological style was used by the first painter, the second painter was more linear and stylised and the latter followed the Byzantine technique.
In 1985 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List which included nine other painted Byzantine churches of the Troodos range.
Stamps:
Refugee Stamp
(Issued 2018)
Houses of the Mediterranean
(Issued 09-07-2018)
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