Famagusta - St. George's of the Greeks Church
St. George's of the Greeks Church
St. George Church in Famagusta
Aziz Simeon Kilesi, St. Symeon Church, Greklerin St. George Kilesesi, Church of Gerrge of the greek, Famagusta, Magosa
Othello Castle in Famagusta, Cyprus (Oct 14, 2017)
Filmed in Famagusta, Cyprus by Chris Krzentz on Oct 14, 2017. If you like the videos, feel free to subscribe to the Chris Krzentz global youtube channel.
Music composed by Derek and Brandon Fiechter
Tracklist :
0:00 – Babylon
3:01 – Byzantium
Against the clock: Saving the endangered heritage of Famagusta (Full version)
The city of Famagusta, located in North-East Cyprus, has been over many centuries at the crossroads between the West and the East, and has played a pivotal role between the Christian and Islamic Worlds. The heritage treasures of this city combine medieval Christian churches and some impressive city walls, among other treasures. Famagusta, once known as the richest city in the world, is now threatened by earthquakes, abandonment and neglect. Due to the severe state of deterioration, it was recently placed on the 2008 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites by the World Monument Fund.
Publications:
Lourenço P.B., Trujilo A., Mendes N., Ramos L.F. (2012). Seismic performance of the St. George of the Latins church: Lessons learned from studying masonry ruins. Engineering Structures, 40, 501-518.
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2012.03.003.
Kaety Economides singing Shubert's Ave Maria in the Church of St George of the Greeks in Famagusta
Video by Lakis Zavallis
Church of St. George of the Latins in Famagusta
Church of St. George of the Latins in Famagusta, Latinlerin St. George Kilisesi
The Epitaphios Walk at St. George Exorinos Church in Famagusta
People, mostly refugee, flocked by the thousands to St. George Exorinos church in the occupied north.
The video above depicts people with candles walking with the Epitaphios -- which symbolizes the tomb of the body of Christ in the Orthodox traditions.
Notable was a local Muslim Cleric joining church service in a sign of interfaith harmony.
Against the clock: Saving the endangered heritage of Famagusta (Highlights)
The city of Famagusta, located in North-East Cyprus, has been over many centuries at the crossroads between the West and the East, and has played a pivotal role between the Christian and Islamic Worlds. The heritage treasures of this city combine medieval Christian churches and some impressive city walls, among other treasures. Famagusta, once known as the richest city in the world, is now threatened by earthquakes, abandonment and neglect. Due to the severe state of deterioration, it was recently placed on the 2008 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites by the World Monument Fund.
Publications:
Lourenço P.B., Trujilo A., Mendes N., Ramos L.F. (2012). Seismic performance of the St. George of the Latins church: Lessons learned from studying masonry ruins. Engineering Structures, 40, 501-518.
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2012.03.003.
St George Church, Paralimni, Cyprus
Video of this fine church in Paralimni.
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Famagusta then and now
The Seven Green Men of Nicosia (Cyprus)
A film purely for reference purposes showing the Seven Green Men on the Church of St Nicholas in Nicosia, Cyprus, the so-called Seven Green Men of Nicosia.
The core of this medieval church was built in the twelfth century, on the site of an earlier Christian basilica, but the gothic sculptural facade (never completed), in which the seven Green Men are set, was added in the thirteenth century.
Although called St Nicholas, this is a misunderstanding based on a visiting nineteenth-century German archaeologist misreading the sculpture on the facade. He thought one of the figures looked like St Nicholas and so the church must have been dedicated to the saint. Most historians now accept that the church was in fact St Mary's, and was never dedicated to St Nicholas, although some believe it might have been the original St Sophia Cathedral. A later St Sophia gothic cathedral (much larger) sits next to it. That said the Turkish authorities in this part of Nicosia still label the church wrongly as St Nicholas. It is also known as The Bedesten as when the muslims took over Cyprus in 1571 they turned the church into a market or bedesten.
Also contrary to popular and tour guide belief the church was never a Latin (Roman Catholic) church, despite its gothic appearance. Even during French and Venetian rule in the Middle Ages it was always a Greek Orthodox church. Cyprus is almost unique in having a number of Orthodox Christian church buildings built in the gothic style (such as parts of St Lazarus in Larnaca and St George of the Greeks in Famagusta.
St George Exorinos Good Friday 2014 in Famagusta
Scenes from the tour of the adorned Επιτάφιος around the Church following the service.
Good Friday mass in occupied north St. George Exorinos
For the first time in more than half a century, a church in northern Cyprus will host Good Friday mass in a sign of a thaw in relations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
Off limits to Greek Cypriots for 58 years, the Church of St. George Exorinos in the medieval city of Famagusta will host a liturgy on what is one of the most important religious dates in the Greek Orthodox calendar.
SAINT NEOFYTOS CHURCH, CYPRUS
SNAPSHOT VIEWS AROUND SAINT NEOFYTOS CHURCH AT SAINT NEOFYTOS MONASTERY NEAR TALA VILLAGE, 10 KMS FROM PAPHOS, CYPRUS. MAY 2013
SAINT NEOFYTOS FOUNDED THE MONASTERY IN 1159 AND THE CHURCH WHICH IS DEDICATED TO THE VIRGIN MARY WAS BUILT AROUND 200 YEARS LATER. THE CHURCH HOUSES BEAUTIFUL BYZANTINE ICONS.
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Ayios Savvas Church in Nicosia, Cyprus (Oct 22, 2017)
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Saint Nicholas church in Pafos Paphos Cyprus
This video is about Pafos church
Ηands on Famagusta at BIZ-Eμείς
Outreach & Education - Saving the Forgotten Frescos of Famagusta
For five hundred years, an exquisite Renaissance fresco depicting the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste has remained hidden, forgotten, and neglected on the wall of a fourteenth-century church in Famagusta, Cyprus. The Forty charts the painstaking work of rescuing the fresco from obscurity and ruin, as part of a pioneering project that puts heritage above politics to begin, after decades of neglect, the work of saving Famagusta’s forgotten frescos. Produced, directed, and narrated by Dan Frodsham.
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