St. George the Latin (Famagusta)
St. George the Latin is a former parish church of the Crusaders in Famagusta in Cyprus . The church bears the nickname of the Latins because the Latin rite was celebrated on it and to differentiate it from the Orthodox Church of St. George of the Greeks.
history
St. George was probably built in the second half of the 13th century by the Frankish crusaders in Famagusta north of St. Nicholas Cathedral, with which St. George has stylistic similarities, as the first Latin parish church in the place. Art historian Panagopoulos also points out similarities with the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and other contemporary Gothic buildings in northern France such as St-Urbain in Troyes .
St. Georg was built as a simple, single-nave, high Gothic church of four bays with groin vaults and a polygonal choir closure . The church was badly hit by Ottoman artillery fire in 1571 and the south side and the vaults collapsed.
literature
- Beata Kitsiki Panagopoulos: Cistercian and Mendicant churches in medieval Greece , Chicago 1979.
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Coordinates: 35 ° 7 ′ 36.3 ″ N , 33 ° 56 ′ 34.4 ″ E