Total: 9 results found.

1. Monastery of Apostolos Andreas / Karpas
(Historical Places)
... s built close to the shore. The church of the main monastery dates to the 18th century, while the main buildings are 100 years later. Mass pilgrimage, however, is only comparatively recent, dating ba ...
2. St Barnabas' Monastery and Icon Museum/ Famagusta
(Historical Places)
... as the three brothers had stayed on. However, by 1976, old age and illness was taking its toll, and they decided to retire to the south. About 100 yards from the monastery, there is a small mausoleum bu ...
3. Salamis Ruins / Famagusta
(Historical Places)
...  prompted the decree from Rome expelling all Jews from the island. Earthquakes in 332 and 342 caused a great deal of damage, and the city was rebuilt by the Byzantine emperor Constantius, naming it Constanti ...
4. Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque / Famagusta
(Historical Places)
... built. After the fall of Jerusalem in 1291, the Lusignan kings, after having been crowned king of Cyprus, came to this cathedral to be crowned king of Jerusalem. It was also here that the last Lusignan ...
5. St Mamas Monastery / Guzelyurt
(Historical Places)
The church in the monastery was originally a Byzantine building, built on the site of an Aphrodite temple. It has been reconstructed at various times over the centuries, with most of the buildings dating ...
6. Blue House / Guzelyurt
(Historical Places)
... in Famagusta, Larnaca, Paphos and Kyrenia. What is rumoured (but without any proof), is that he was an EOKA gun runner who built his house where he did in order to keep an eye out to sea for the arrival ...
7. Kyrenia Castle / Kyrenia
(Historical Places)
... Rumoured to be the original inspiration for Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty", St Hilarion was built during the Crusades, and those intrepid enough to brave the long walk to its battlements will be reward ...
8. Selimiye Mosque / Nicosia
(Historical Places)
... that it was built over the ruins of a much earlier Byzantine church called Hagia Sophia. It was consecrated in 1326 while still incomplete, and the blunt-roofed bell towers were never finished. Within ...
9. Great Inn / Nicosia
(Historical Places)
One of the most important architectural works of the Ottoman period, the Buyuk Han (The Great Inn) is located in the traditional market centre within the City Walls. The Han, which was built to provide ...
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