Church / UNESCO World Heritage

Agios Nikolaos tis Stegis — Saint Nicholas of the Roof

We include the church as a clear example of a Cypriot mountain church protected by a large pitched timber roof.

Eleventh to seventeenth centuries

Paintings from different centuries show how the interior changed from one generation to the next.

Outside, ask children to guess why a stone church needed an additional wooden “roof over the roof”.

At the site we focus on specific reference points: the double roof, frescoes from different periods, Saint Nicholas and the dome concealed beneath the roof.