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The best-known and richest monastery of Cyprus, Kykkos Monastery was founded in 1100 and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It possesses one of three surviving icons ascribed to Saint Luke. It is covered in silver gilt, enclosed in a shrine of tortoise…

This cote of arms is situated at the lintel of the entrance to the Katholicon, the main church of the monastery

Τhe upper body of Christ Pantocrator is depicted in a medallion. He blesses and holds an open Gospel. The medallion is surrounded by an elaborate inscription. On the right is depicted Virgin Mary the Eleousa and on the left Saint John the…

Christ stands in the center with his right hand stretched out towards Pilate and his left hand holding a scroll. Christ wears a blue chamys and a purple garment. Pilate and his servant are placed in front of an aedicula. Pilate is seated on a stool…

Annas and Caiaphas are sitting on a throne in council and before them a table with leaf of paper and and an ink-pot. The secretary has written already on the paper while a host of Jewish people behind him are watching to see the end. Before the…

This wall -painting depicts the figure of Christ Emmanuel standing above the entrance from the Bema to the Enkleistra. The youthful Christ wears a chlamys of a yellow color. Christ blesses with his right hand and holds a closed scroll at his left.

Christ blesses and holds an open Gospel. It is an icon of the Great Supplication which is saved on the nave of the iconostasis of the Katholikon. Dimensions 83 x 69 cm. Painted by Joseph Chourri.

Christ is seated on a luxurious throne, giving His blessing and holding a closed Gospel with a painted cross. This wall-painting is found on the north wall of the Naos in the Enkleistra.

Christ is blessing and holds an open gospel. He wears a cloak with elaborate drawings. The icon is on the south of the main entrance to the Sanctuary of the iconostasis in the Katholikon.

Vestiges of wall-painting in the Cell dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. Saint Neophytos excavated this cave north of the Upper Enkleistra.