Barn roof church

Panagia Podithou in Galata

Villages with barn roof churches in the Troodos Mountains

Barn roof church is a type of some church buildings of the Cypriot Orthodox Church in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus . Nine of the barn roof churches in 1985 by the UNESCO under the name Painted Churches in the Troodos area as a World Heritage site in the UNESCO World Heritage added, another followed the 2,001th

description

The external appearance of these churches is reminiscent of barns with the deeply drawn-down shingle roofs that protect against the rainy climate , mostly made of wood shingles, without a bell tower, which led to the designation of this type of building as a barn roof church . Some churches had these roofs from the start, such as the Panagia tis Asinou near Nikitari, others received them afterwards, such as the church Agios Nikolaos tis Stegis near Kakopetria. About half of the 61 churches described by Andreas and Judith A. Stylianou in their fundamental work on painted churches in Cyprus are of the barn roof type.

From the outside, these churches appear simple and rustic. The splendidly glowing Byzantine frescoes contrast with this inside . They give an overview of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine painting art in Cyprus.

Churches

Interior of the Archangelos Michail Church in Pedoulas

Birth of Jesus in Agios Nikolaos tis Stegis in Kakopetria

Baptism of Jesus in Panagia Theotokos in Galata

Maria between Gabriel and Michael in Metamorfosis tou Sotiros in Palechori

The barn roof churches of the Trodoos Mountains include:
(WE = part of the World Heritage Site Painted Churches in the Troodos area )

• Timios Stavros in Agia Irini
• Agia Christina in Askas
• Agios Ioannis Prodromos in Askas
• Agia Paraskevi in Galata
• Agios Sozomenos in Galata
• Panagia tis Podithou in Galata (WE)
• Panagia Theotokos or Archangelos in Galata (WE)
• Sts Joachim and Anna in Kaliana
• Agios Andronikos in Kalopanagiotis
• Agios Ioannis Lampadistis in Kalopanagiotis (WE)
• Agios Georgios Perachoritis in Kakopetria
• Agios Nikolaos tis Stegis in Kakopetria (WE)
• Panagia Theotokos in Kakopetria
• Church the Virgin Mary in Kamaria
• Church of Dormition in Kourdali
• Timios Stavros in Kyperounda
• Panagia tou Arakos in Lagoudera (WE)
• Agios Mamas in Louvaras
• Panagia tou Moutoulla in Moutoullas (WE)
• Panagia tis Asinou or Panagia Forviotissa in Nikitari (WE)
• Metamorfosis tou Sotiros or Agia Sotira in Palechori (WE)
• Timios Stavros or Agia Paraskevi in Paleomylos
• Panagia Chrysopantanassa in Palechori
• Archangelos Michail in Pedoulas (WE)
• Panagia Katholiki in Pelendri
• Timios Stavros tou Agiasmati in Platanistasa (WE)
• Panagia Chrysokourdaliotissa in Spilia
• Archangelos Mikhail in Vizakia

literature

• Rainer Eisenschmid (Hrsg.): Baedeker travel guide Cyprus. 9th edition. Verlag Karl Baedeker 2011.

• Andreas Stylianou and Judith A. Stylianou: The Painted Churches of Cyprus. Trigraph, London 1985. ISBN 0-9508026-1-1 .
• Andreas Stylianou and Judith A. Stylianou: The Painted Churches of Cyprus . 2nd revised ed. AG Leventis Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus 1997, ISBN 9963-560-30-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Painted Churches in the Troodos Region. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved June 24, 2017 . 

Web links

Commons : Painted Churches in the Troodos Region  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Barn roof churches on Cyprus.de