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Timios Stavros monastery, Anoyira

Anogyra, Limassol District · Medieval

Timios Stavros monastery, Anoyira: a monastery in Anogyra, Limassol District. 3 dated records of work on it, 1994 to 2001, with sources.

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Limassol District, about 34°44′ N, 32°44′ E

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The pin marks the village of Anogyra, not the building. Approximate location. Open in the map →

What was done when

3 records
  1. 1994

    Byzantine monastery restored.

    Repair and conservation

    Dimos Christou, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1994», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 119 (1995), pp. 799-838, p. 838

  2. 1998

    Church with frescoes; restoration in 1998.

    Repair and conservation

    Sophoklis Hadjisavvas, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1998», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 123 (1999), pp. 599-633, p. 631; Sophoklis Hadjisavvas, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2001», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 126 (2002), pp. 691-727, p. 727

  3. 2001

    Church restored in 2001.

    Repair and conservation

    Sophoklis Hadjisavvas, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1998», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 123 (1999), pp. 599-633, p. 631; Sophoklis Hadjisavvas, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2001», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 126 (2002), pp. 691-727, p. 727

In the literature

2
  1. 2006

    The area around the monastery was landscaped: fenced on the north and east and walled on the south and west. Printed costs: Government contribution 2.380,71; Society of Expatriates and Friends of Anogyra 2.380,72.

    Pavlos Flourentzos, Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the Year 2006 (Lefkosia 2008), p. 33

  2. Undated

    Church with fifteenth-century frescoes in the purely Byzantine style, in the Limassol district.

    As printed

    “the Holy Cross in Anogyra and the Virgin in Prasteio (Avdimou), testify that this purely”

    Joanna Christoforaki, "Mediaeval Art of Cyprus", Cyprus Today vol. 34, no. 3-4 (July–December 1996), pp. 17–25, p. 17.

Sources

  1. 1.Dimos Christou, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1994», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 119 (1995), pp. 799-838, p. 838
  2. 2.Sophoklis Hadjisavvas, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1998», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 123 (1999), pp. 599-633, p. 631
  3. 3.Sophoklis Hadjisavvas, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2001», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 126 (2002), pp. 691-727, p. 727
  4. 4.Pavlos Flourentzos, Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the Year 2006 (Lefkosia 2008), p. 33
  5. 5.Joanna Christoforaki, "Mediaeval Art of Cyprus", Cyprus Today vol. 34, no. 3-4 (July–December 1996), pp. 17–25, p. 17.

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