The Church of Timios Stavros (Holy Cross)

Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985, the 14th century Church of Timios Stavros (Holy Cross) at Pelendri village, is one of ten monuments making up the World Heritage List of Painted Churches in the Troodos Region, Cyprus.

The church was originally a single-aisled domed structure, built around the middle of the 12th century, and may have been the church of a cemetery. It was destroye…