Panagia Chrysiotissa

View to the apse

View from the southwest. The walled-up arcades of the south aisle of the earlier basilica can be seen

Floor plan 1899, Camille Enlart

The Panagia Chrysiotissa (also: Church of the Holy Virgin) is a Gothic church within a Byzantine church ruin in the ruined city of Aphendrika on the Karpas Peninsula in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus .

history

The Byzantine predecessor of the Gothic church was built around 600 as a three-aisled basilica, which closed in the east with three apses. It was probably destroyed by an Ottoman raid in 1363.

At the time of the rule of the House of Lusignan over Cyprus, under the barons of Karpas in the late 14th century, a simple single-nave Gothic church was built into the central nave in the first three bays of the basilica, which ends in the east with a semicircular apse and is vaulted with a pointed arch barrel . This is the only one of the Aphendrikas churches that has survived to this day.

Some specimens of the white-rimed bat , the second most common bat species in Cyprus, which is also found in six locations on the Karpas Peninsula, lived in the church (2005).

literature

Michael Altripp: The basilica in Byzantium . Berlin 2013, p. 77.
Camille Enlart (translated by David Hunt): Gothic Art and the Renaissance in Cyprus . Paris 1899 / London 1987, pp. 305f.

Web links

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Remarks

↑ Petr Benda, Vladimír Hanák, Ivan Horáček, Pavel Hulva, Radek Lučak, Manuel Ruedi : Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean. Part 5. Bat fauna of Cyprus: review of records with confirmationofsixspeciesnew for the island and description of a new subspecies , in: Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 71 (2007) 71–130, here: p. 105.

35.648003 34.441119Coordinates: 35 ° 38 ′ 52.8 ″ N , 34 ° 26 ′ 28 ″ E

[1] Petr Benda, Vladimír Hanák, Ivan Horáček, Pavel Hulva, Radek Lučak, Manuel Ruedi : Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean. Part 5. Bat fauna of Cyprus: review of records with confirmationofsixspeciesnew for the island and description of a new subspecies , in: Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 71 (2007) 71–130, here: p. 105.