Historical background information  

According to Rupert Gunnis, the church of St. George or Agios Georgios was built in 1862, with an elaborate narthex on the south side. The north wall is supported by three flying buttresses. A large fragment of a marble frieze with an acanthus leaf design, above the window of the apse, is from one of the temples of Salamis. The church contained an icon of St. James dated to 1718. In the village, there is a small modern (in 1956) chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas replaced by a Byzantine structure with an iconostasis screen belonging to former building dated 1710 (Gunnis 1956:326).  The icon although can be moved from another church is interesting with the date of 1718 of James. An earlier Latin church is highly likely. Reused gargoyles are from a Latin church. Small windows on the apse also determining the earlier church. Inside the west arch with frescoes is of a catholic practice.

The building of the Agios Georgios Church in Limnia/Mormenekşe village, is a stone wall structure, with a single Barrel vault roof, porch, and a belltower. The building has many reused architectural parts from an archaeological site probably Salamis.  An Ottoman period marble figure of Hadjiloukas, donor of the church in 1862. (Pers. Comm. 22 Oct 2022 Theophilos  Theophilou grand grandson of Hadjiloukas). The snakes may represent protection of knowledge and wisdom  and the stone gargoyles from a Latin chapel. These all represent mosaic of cultures that once lived in the area and give us information regarding the development of the present church. 

Womens gallery was constructed in 1895 was the last extension of the church. Its built-on Juniper wood, with a lime-based mortar on top of them and a finish floor with gypsum marble slaps (45 x 45 cm), and with a gypsum plastered false ceiling below. At a point an iron beam was placed below the gallery (vertically sitting on the south wall of the church and on stairs) to support bending.

The Agios Georgios Church was selected as part of the priority conservation projects of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage. Within the framework of the EU funded and UNDP implemented Support to cultural heritage monuments of great importance for Cyprus project, a study “Survey, Investigations, Assessment and Project Design” was carried out in 2022 and the conservation works were implemented during 2023–2024.
 

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