{"id":38851,"date":"2022-12-01T13:51:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T11:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/?page_id=38851"},"modified":"2025-01-22T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T09:13:53","slug":"church-museum-national-martyr-kyprianos-in-strovolos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/home-page\/the-municipality\/tour-in-strovolos\/church-museum-national-martyr-kyprianos-in-strovolos\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Museum \u201cNational Martyr Kyprianos\u201d in Strovolos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The church museum \u201cNational Martyr Kyprianos\u201d is located next to the Byzantine church of Panagias Chryseleousas in Strovolos. The museum is sheltered in the renovated House of catechists, at the west side of the church and it was renovated and upgraded by the architect Fanos Loizidis.<\/p>\n

The impressive marble stone dedicate to Archbishop Kyprianos is standing at the courtyard of the museum.\u00a0 \u00a0At the top of the column there is a stone miter, the cross of which was destroyed by the Ottomans.\u00a0 On the occasion of the 200th<\/sup> anniversary of Kyprianos\u2019 martyrdom, the cross on the miter has been restored.<\/p>\n

The objects on display are divided into sections such as the temple and the rituals in it, moveable paintings, sacred vessels, manuscripts, antiques, and woodcuts.<\/p>\n

Inside the exhibition hall there is an artistic inscribed cross-like domed temple and the exhibits showed inside are related to the devotional service (paintings, sacred vessels, holy books, wood-carving and embroidery works).<\/p>\n

In the museum, in addition to a few but important salvaged relics related to Archbishop Kyprianos, such as paintings, vessels and an armchair, a significant number of objects are exhibited, which come from the churches of Strovolos, Panagia Chryseleousa and Agios Georgios. These objects include moveable paintings from the 16th<\/sup> to the 20th<\/sup> century, of different styles (the age of Venetian rule, the religious paintings workshop of the Monastery of Saint Heraklidios, Nazarene style) and different techniques (egg tempera, oi paintings) from religious paintings workshops of Cyprus, Greece, Holy Land and Russia. \u00a0Among these, what stands out are the paintings of Virgin Mary-Glykofilousa, Virgin Mary of Passion (16th century), Virgin Mary-Odegetria with saints (beginning of 17th<\/sup> century) from the Ionian Islands, two impressive triptych with the Virgin Mary of Kykkos with a ship and another one with Virgin Mary of Machairas and other Saints (18th<\/sup> century). In addition, there are works of Solomon Fragkoulidi like Panagia Chryseleousa and \u201cTheonympetos Daughter\u201d (20th<\/sup> century), Saint Photios (1957) and \u201cThe Virgin of Eleusis of Strovolos\u201d, a painting of Ioannis Kissonergis (1949). There are also works of Panaretos Kousoulidis, such as Saint Nicholas (1953), works of Andreas Paparistodimou, such as Saint Elias (1959) and works from the Stavrovouni Monastery.<\/p>\n

Silver sacred vessels such as chalices, crosses, herubium sets, a censer (19th<\/sup> century), are on display and some of them are donations of Xatzisavvas Kyriacos. There is also a shell-encrusted monstrance, as a gift from Archbishop Kyprianos (1819).\u00a0 There are also vestments and embroidery items on display such as written (1692) and stamped altar cloths (\u201cantiminsia\u201d) (19th<\/sup>-20th<\/sup> century), as well as a big Russian coffin (19th <\/sup>century).<\/p>\n

What stands out of the rich collection of post-Byzantine manuscripts and antiquities, is the manuscript \u201cAward of living and dead Orthodox Christians\u201d of Strovolos (1792), in which monk Theophanis inscribed the names of Strovolos families, among them the family of Archbishop Kyprianos.\u00a0 Further, there are rites of Saints, the book of the Storehouse 1909-1910 ,as well as printed books from the Greek print shops of Venice and Athens, such as Gospels, Prayers, \u201cTheotokarion\u201d, \u201cMenaion\u201d books, \u201cTriodium\u201d and rites of Cypriot Saints (18th<\/sup>-19th <\/sup>century).<\/p>\n

There is also a display of a hearse which was used for transferring the dead at the cemetery. It is a car type AUSTIN and on its truck there is a wood-carved ciborium with depictions of saints.\u00a0 This hearse was used in 1977 for transferring the body of Archbishop Makarios III and the body of the first president of Cyprus for burial at Kykkos Monastery.<\/p>\n

The exhibits displayed in the museum\u2019s permanent collections constitute an integral part of Strovolos\u2019 history and part of the memory of all citizens who preserved them throughout the centuries.<\/p>\n

Dr. Christodoulos Chatzichristodoulou<\/strong><\/em>
\nByzantinologist \u2013 Museum Curator<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The ecclesiastical museum “Ethnomartyr Archbishop Kyprianos” is located next to the Byzantine church of Panagia Chryseleousa in Strovolos. The Museum is housed in the renovated House of Catechists, to the west of the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Contact<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Address<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>90 Archibishop Kiprianou str, 2059 Strovolos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Telephone:\u00a0<\/strong>22 750160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
E-mail:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0arch.kyprianos.museum@strovolos.org.cy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n