Panagia Stazousa

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Panagia Stazousa
Floor plan of the monastery complex, Camille Enlart 1899
Interior

The Panagia Stazousa is a Gothic monastery church from the time of the Frankish crusader rule of the House of Lusignan in Cyprus . Today it is a metochi of the Orthodox Stavrovouni monastery and is located 15 km west of Larnaka .

history

No written sources have been preserved on the historical background of the Franconian monastery founding in today's Panagia Stazousa. The art historian Camille Enlart initially even saw the building as the location of the Cistercian Abbey of Beaulieu , founded around 1235 , which he was able to locate shortly afterwards during excavations in Nicosia in 1901. Enlart characterized the building of Panagia Stazousa as Cistercian based on stylistic comparisons. Today's administration of antiquities in Cyprus also addresses the complex as the foundation of the Cistercians. Therefore, there is a possibility that the monastery was a Beaulieu priory. Nicholas Coureas agrees with Enlart in addressing the Panagia Stazousa in the tradition of Cistercian architecture, but also considers it possible to see a priory of Stavrovouni, where a Benedictine abbey was located under Frankish rule .

The monastery church itself consists of a two-bay nave with a three-sided choir closure. A lower yoke is added to the west, which is separated from the nave by a wall like a narthex. To the north and west of it there were surrounding monk cells, which have only been preserved as ruins. In addition, a Gothic entrance portal has been preserved to the west. One cell was set up as the residence of an Orthodox monk from Stavrovouni, who lives in the metochi and provides regular prayer times.

literature

  • Nicholas Coureas: The Latin Church in Cyprus 1195-1312. Aldershot 1997, p. 198.
  • Camille Enlart: Gothic Art and the Renaissance in Cyprus. translated v. David Hunt. Paris 1899 / London 1987, pp. 321-325.
  • George Jeffery: A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus. 1918, p. 189.

Web links

Commons : Panagia Stazousa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 2006, Republic of Cyprus. P. 30.

Coordinates: 34 ° 54 ′ 14.4 "  N , 33 ° 29 ′ 9.9"  E