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The composition of Paraklesis flanks the templon of the naos. The portraits of Mary and John and Christ the Merciful are depicted on either side of the bema, responds and create a link with the same representation attested, on the respective position…

Saint Tychon, Bishop of Amathus, is the figure appearing within a medallion above the south-east arch.

The Sacrifice of Isaac is dispersed over four scenes and dominates most of the triumphal arch. As with the portrait of the Virgin on the arch, the composition of Isaac’s sacrifice dates to the second painting programme of bema and naos, i.e. to…

John of Damascus occupies the northern side of the triumphal arch above the bema of the church and is dated to the refurbishment programme of the bema. He is depicted in a monk’s attire as in the narthex, facing upward to the sacrifice of Isaac. …

The Mother of God Pantanassa (Queen of All), flanked by Archangels Michael and Gabriel, are depicted on the conch of the apse of the bema area. They belong to the late thirteenth-century fresco layer. Mary is portrayed full-length in the type of…

Painted on the vault over the bema, the fragmentary Ascension shows Jesus Christ in a round mandorla with four angels flanking him.

Saint Lazarus, Bishop of Kition, is depicted, in a medallion, on the spandrel of the arch, on the north wall of the bema

On the western side of the soffit’s lower zone of the south-eastern recess, Saint James the Lord’s Brother is depicted.

On the south-east niche in the bema area, the scene of the Presentation of Theotokos to the Temple is shown. As with the majority of the murals attested within the bema area, the scene is chronologically placed in the original decorating programme. …

In the niche formed on the southern wall of the bema area, Christ as Emmanuel is painted. It is dated to 1631 A.D. Its original position was on the strengthened masonry on the south face of the apse. However, in 1953 A.D. the masonry was removed…