The church — built on the site of a natural spring at the head of a valley — was constructed in the twelfth century and belonged originally to a Greek Orthodox monastery . It consists of a single building with a spacious dome carried on eight pillars and is the only surviving example of this type in Cyprus . A ruined and partly restored example is in Saint Hilarion Castle and there was once a similar church at the centre of the Monastery of St. John Chrysostomos at Koutsovendis before the church there was rebuilt at the end of the nineteenth century . The narthex on the western side and the arcade on the south were added a later time , probably in the fifteenth century when the building was under the Latin church . The irregular shape of the dome is perhaps due to damaged sustained during the 1222 Cyprus earthquake
1222 Cyprus earthquake
1222 Cyprus earthquake
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