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Sacred ecclesiastical utensils. Since the construction of the church 1900 A.D

Sacred ecclesiastical utensils. Since the construction of the church 1900 A.D

The church of St. Minas, is located in the historic core of Agios Athanasios. It was built in 1900 AD and had been anointed in April 1910 AD by the Bishop of Kition, Meletios Metaxakis. The church was restored in 2001. In the same area, about 100m to…

This small chapel, is located opposite the old school (the current cultural center of the municipality) seems to have been the community’s church from the time it was built (17th century) until the completion of the church of St. Minas, which was…

The central part of the chapel’s roof is decorated with the painting of Christ Pantocrator. The four Evangelists are located in the four internal angles that define the two arches and the horizontal dividing decorations, as is customary in the dome…

The Crucifixion of Jesus, as painted by Father. Evangelos on one of the arched parts of the chapel’s roof.

The interior of the church was probably painted with murals of the 17th century, as evidenced by the only surviving mural of Archangel Michael. The chapel was fully decorated with murals by painter father Evangelos Yiallourides and members of his…

The interior of the Chapel as is now fully illustrated. “Platytera” -mother of Jesus- can be distinguished on a niche of the sanctuary, as well as the Birth and Baptism at a part of the ceiling fixed by the end of the socket and the first arch.

St. Cosmas of Aetolia came from the village Great Tree Acarnania and lived in the moonless years of Ottoman rule. At the age of twenty he went to Mount Athos where he studied at school and then became a monk. He was ordained priest in Filotheou Mount…

The Church of St. Kosmas (memorial church) is built at the southern entrance of the cemetery of St. Athanasios in Limassol and is the first church dedicated to St. Cosmas the Aetolian Cyprus. The construction of the church ended in March 2011.