Monastery of St Barnabas

Since 1991-1992 an Icon Museum (church) and Archaeological Museum (cells) with Bronze and Iron Age material mostly from Salamis and Enkomi; some pieces reportedly from the Hadjiprodromou collection (2019)

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1. c. 0478
   Traditional discovery of Barnabas's relics and founding of the basilica under Zeno (477/478 versus c.488 for the synodal confirmation).

   Salamis

2. 1756
   Present church rebuilt under Archbishop Philotheos (a variant tradition splits the works with a 17th-c. rebuild and a 1734 renovation).

   Salamis

3. 1927–1931
   Gjerstad lodged at the monastery in the guest-room during the Enkomi excavation and describes three painter-brothers there (dates of his stay not on the pages read).

   EnkomiEinar Nilson GjerstadGjerstad 1980, pp. 69-70

4. 20 December 1976
   Two surviving monks expelled (the Church's account) and taken to Stavrovouni; the monastery lay in the area under Turkish control after 1974.

   SalamisStephanosBarnabas

5. March 1981
   Three boxes of icons and antiquities bound for Germany were confiscated at Ankara airport; Turkish press reported some came from this monastery (allegation as reported by secondary website sources).

   Ankara

6. August 1991
   Turkish Cypriot authorities began restoration of monastery and church; more icons added in 1992; run by the Department of Antiquities and Museums (north).

   SalamisStylianou-Lambert & Bounia 2016, p. 167

7. 25 April 2026
   Roof restoration began, EU-funded under UNDP supervision, announced by Sotos Ktoris of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage.

   SalamisSotos Ktoris

• Three-handled jars cat. 77-78 (Aegean-type pottery study)

  via Christakis HadjiprodromouGraziadio