Chapel of Timios Prodromos (saint John the Forerunner)

Feast day: August 29

The chapel was built on the site of a pre-existing church. It is a single-aisled chapel with a cross vault and a five-sided arch covered by a semi-dome. The external buttresses extend along the entire height of the walls. The chapel has five doors: three on the north side (one in the sanctuary and the smaller one leads to the wooden gallery); one on the south and one on the west side, which originally had a portico. The portico in question was converted into a closed narthex in the early 1980s. Apart from the windows on all sides, the chapel has clerestory windows, including those in the apse. The stone-built belfry with the small dome at the northwest end of the church has three levels. After the recent renovation of the chapel, evidence of older phases came to light, with the oldest dating back to the Byzantine period (12th century). The year 1866 is inscribed on the Holy Altar with the ciborium, still preserved in the chapel. The present phase of the chapel dates to the beginning of the 19th century and was inaugurated by Kyrillos II, Metropolitan of Kyrenia,  on May 6, 1901 (inscription on the north wall). In addition to the relics acquired after the construction of the chapel (icons, iconostasis, despotic throne, etc.), there is a number of important relics that belonged to the previous church, or to the older churches of the community that no longer exist. It is worth mentioning the icons of the 15th century painted by the Cypriot Minas from Myrianthousa (Marathasa), who also decorated the church of Archangel Michael in Pedoulas; the devotional icon of saint John the Forerunner of 1737 and the apron (podea in Greek) of the iconostasis, painted by monks of the Monastery of saint Herakleidios in 1766. The feast day of the chapel is on the 29th of August.