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Sourp Magar Monastery, Cyprus

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1128: 222:, there was a commendable initiative to restore and revitalize the site. While the operation did lead to some challenges, including vandalism and looting for building materials, it is heartening to note that, from 2005, the Turkish authorities embarked on a project to rebuild and re-roof several rooms on the south side of the precinct. This effort was undertaken with the noble intention of providing a welcoming space for forest trekkers to enjoy refreshments. Although there were discussions about further developments, the project, unfortunately, has not been continued. Nonetheless, the initial steps taken to preserve and enhance the site are a testament to the commitment of those involved. 1119: 1111: 132:, the establishment was exempted from taxes. This exemption was renewed in 1660 and 1701. Restoration work is recorded to have been undertaken in 1735 and again in 1814, when the larger of the two chapels was reconstructed. Sourp Magar has, over its long history, served a wide range of social functions, from a school and rest-house for pilgrims to an orphanage and summer retreat for the Armenians of 186: 20: 1136: 722: 178: 198:). These building were probably put up when the Armenians first took possession of the site. Internally, the buildings are two-storied, with a simple arcade below and a walkway above. The walkway was originally edged by stone posts with wooden lintels. The roofs throughout rested on wooden beams and were covered with curved tiles. 210:
who, writing in 1918, commented that the east side "retains its architectural character in richly moulded pointed arch windows ... and in a venerable doorway. A large room used as a guest chamber, with the roof supported on a central column at the north-east corner, is of the same date as the eastern
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From the 1920s modern tiles and other additions were added in many places, while the post-war period brought misguided rebuilding with reinforced concrete. One of the medieval windows had a concrete awning with steel I-beams inserted into it, evidently to provide a place for a toilet and bathroom.
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The Sourp Magar consists of an irregular rectangle of two-storied residential buildings constructed around a generous precinct. The site overall slopes gently from west to east. Two small churches or chapels, standing in the north-east part of the central courtyard, stand side-by-side. The largest
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The line of residential buildings facing towards the north and east probably belong to the fifteenth century judging from the shape and style of the Gothic windows and doors. One window has a chevron design, a characteristic feature of later Gothic building in Cyprus (as well old
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of which has more or less disappeared. This nave is represented by a large arch (rebuilt) and the common vestibule between the two chapels. The antiquity of the apses is indicated by the masonry which is close to the eleventh-century parts of the churches at
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and established powerful kingdoms there in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The transfer of Sourp Magar to the Armenians was probably occasioned by these events and the increasing importance of the Armenian community in the Lusignan kingdom.
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The residential buildings at Sourp Magar are extremely important for the history of architecture in Cyprus, being the best-preserved and most extensive examples of late medieval domestic building on the island, even in their ruined state.
144:, the Armenian community could no longer maintain custodians at Sourp Magar and the complex fell into ruins. Armenians nonetheless retain great attachment to their ancient establishment. Thanks to the efforts of 136:. Some people lived on-site full-time, a report made in 1935 noting that 17 people resided there. Sourp Magar once housed a collection of manuscripts and other sacred items, but these were re-located to the 174:. The Aphendrika churches have been dated on good authority to the eleventh century and appear to have suffered a similar fate, being ruined by earthquakes in the thirteenth or fourteenth century 471: 1498: 733: 1845: 64:
culture, Sourp Magar is noted for its picturesque location and distant views of the Mediterranean and the mountains in Anatolia. The monastery had close ties with the
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chapel, with its vault still in place, was built in 1814. The chapels appear to be the vestiges of the side aisles of a fairly large church, the
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rule. In the Ottoman Era, it was often called the Blue Monastery on account of the colour of the doors and windows. In 1642, at the time of
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who died in 395 AD. Of the Coptic history of Sourp Magar nothing is known, but sometime before 1425 the monastery was transferred to the
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Southern chapel at Sourp Magar, view of the apse from the east, ashlar portions probably eleventh century.
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Magaravank was founded in the early eleventh century and at that time seems to have belonged to the
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A.H.S. Megaw, 'Byzantine Architecture and Decoration in Cyprus: Metropolitan or Provincial?'
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Part of the walkway floor in the interior was also rebuilt using reinforced concrete.
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escaped the Mamlukes. The crown of the Kingdom of Armenia subsequently passed to the
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General view of Sourp Magar from the north, showing main domestic building in 2009.
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East façade of Sourp Magar, showing main entrance, probably fifteenth century.
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The Early Christian Ecclesiastical Architecture of Cyprus: First Impressions
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Ancient, medieval, and historical Armenian churches and monasteries
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28 (1974), pp. 57-88; Megaw, 'Three Vaulted Basilicas in Cyprus',
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The Armenians retained control of Sourp Magar and its lands under
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rulers of Cyprus. Armenians continued to migrate to Cyprus as
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These developments reported primarily online, for example, "
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Index


Armenian
Pentadaktylos
Cyprus
de facto
Northern Cyprus
Armenian
Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia
Antelias
Lebanon
Coptic Orthodox Church
Macarius of Alexandria
Armenians in Cyprus
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Leo V
Lusignan
Turkic
Anatolia
Venetian
Ottoman
Ibrahim I
Nicosia
Holy See of Cilicia
Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
Armenian Cypriot
Vartkes Mahdessian
nave
Lythrangomi
Karpass Peninsula

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