Agios Thyrsos

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The church dedicated to St. Thyrsus and its chapel, 2014

Agios Thyrsos , also known as Agios Therisos , is a Greek Orthodox church east of Yialousa / Yeni Erenköy on the Karpas Peninsula, which was looted during the Cyprus crisis and the cemetery was destroyed.

Next to the church, which is dedicated to Thyrsus , a martyr under Emperor Decius , who came from Apollonia (Mysia) in Asia Minor , there is a chapel . The spring by the chapel was famous for its healing water, which was also intended to help women who made pilgrimages to achieve the desired pregnancy.

Although it is referred to as a medieval church in some travel guides , this only refers to the chapel located directly on the bank, partly built into the stone. This marks the location of a locally revered grotto. The large church slightly above is a historical building from the late Ottoman rule. Since the opening of the border between Northern Cyprus and the Republic of Cyprus, the church has again been furnished with candles and votive offerings by visitors .

The looted iconostasis with alternatively hung icon posters
The chapel
Chapel of Agios Thyrsos, foundation of the looted iconostasis

Not far from the church are the remains of the Machairionas summer settlement, which consisted of around 20 houses. There was a fortified settlement near the church, and shards dating back to the Middle Bronze Age were found at the Vikla site . A 126 cm high statue of a youth made of Poros , the most commonly used stone, was also found.

literature

  • Marko Kiessel, Asu Tozan: Orthodox Church Architecture in the Northern Districts of Cyprus form the mid-19th Century to 1974 , in: Prostor 22,2 (2014) 161–173.

Web links

Commons : Church of Agios Thyrsos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Chapel of Agios Thrysos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Robert Fox: The Inner Sea. The Mediterranean and its People , Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991, p. 289.
  2. ↑ Michele Bacci: Some Remarks on the Appropriation, Use, and Survival of Gothic Forms on Cyprus , in: Lynn Jones (Ed.): Byzantine Images and their Afterlives. Essays in Honor of Annemarie Weyl Carr , Routledge, 2014, pp. 145–168, here: p. 161.
  3. ↑ Cyprus today, 2015, p. 17.
  4. ^ Hans A. Pohlsander: Sources for the Memory of Cyprus. German texts: Turkish period (after 1800) , Greece and Cyprus Research Center, 2006, p. 188.
  5. ↑ Claude Baurain: chypre et la Méditerranée orientale au bronze récent , De Boccard, 1984, the 65th
  6. ^ Joan du Plat Taylor: Myrtou-Pigadhes. A late bronze age sanctuary in Cyprus , Ashmolean Museum, 1957, p. 58.
  7. ↑ Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 1964, p. 305.

Coordinates: 35 ° 34 ′ 11.3 "  N , 34 ° 15 ′ 23.3"  E