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The Church of Panayia Theotokos

Kakopetria, Nicosia District

The Church of Panayia Theotokos: a church in Kakopetria, Nicosia District. Protected by Order in Council in 1949. 2 dated records of work on it, 2002 to 2007, with sources.

Nicosia District, about 34°58′ N, 32°54′ E

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Protection

Antiquities Law
  1. 28 February 1949

    Proposed for declaration, No. 88, Second Schedule, Nicosia

    “The Church of Panayia Theotokos.”

    Supplement No. 3 to The Cyprus Gazette No. 3424 of 28 February 1949, No. 88, The Antiquities Laws, 1935 and 1945: Notice under section 6 (2) (proposed declaration), by the Director of Antiquities (made 28 February 1949), Second Schedule, Nicosia, pp. 121–123 Online

  2. 24 November 1949

    Order under the Antiquities Law, No. 454, Second Schedule, Nicosia item 51

    “The Church of Panayia Theotokos.”

    Supplement No. 3 to The Cyprus Gazette No. 3470 of 1 December 1949, No. 454, The Antiquities Laws, 1935 and 1945: Order in Council No. 2389 made under section 6 (1) (made 24 November 1949), Second Schedule, Nicosia item 51, pp. 527–529 Online

What was done when

2 records
  1. 2002

    Church; fresco restoration.

    Repair and conservation

    Sophoklis Hadjisavvas, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2002», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 127 (2003), pp. 649-682, p. 680

  2. 2007

    Work on this small 16th-century timber-roofed church, whose wall-paintings of 1620 had been restored in 2001-2002. Printed costs: Government contribution 18.439,40; Church Committee 18.439,41.

    Repair and conservation

    Pavlos Flourentzos, Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the Year 2007 (Lefkosia 2008), p. 20

In the literature

1
  1. 1520

    Chapel with Holy Women at the Empty Tomb painting, dated by inscription to 1520, post-Byzantine style.

    As printed

    “dated by an inscription to the year 1520”

    A. and J. STYLIANOU, "The Anastasis (Resurrection) in the Painted Churches of Cyprus", Cyprus Today vol. 5, no. 2 (April–June 1967), pp. 5–7, p. 7.

Sources

  1. 1.Supplement No. 3 to The Cyprus Gazette No. 3470 of 1 December 1949, No. 454, The Antiquities Laws, 1935 and 1945: Order in Council No. 2389 made under section 6 (1) (made 24 November 1949), Second Schedule, Nicosia item 51, pp. 527–529 Online
  2. 2.Supplement No. 3 to The Cyprus Gazette No. 3424 of 28 February 1949, No. 88, The Antiquities Laws, 1935 and 1945: Notice under section 6 (2) (proposed declaration), by the Director of Antiquities (made 28 February 1949), Second Schedule, Nicosia, pp. 121–123 Online
  3. 3.Sophoklis Hadjisavvas, «Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 2002», Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 127 (2003), pp. 649-682, p. 680
  4. 4.A. and J. STYLIANOU, "The Anastasis (Resurrection) in the Painted Churches of Cyprus", Cyprus Today vol. 5, no. 2 (April–June 1967), pp. 5–7, p. 7.
  5. 5.Pavlos Flourentzos, Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the Year 2007 (Lefkosia 2008), p. 20

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