
The largest and wealthiest Orthodox monastery in Cyprus, situated at an elevation of roughly 1,200 to 1,318 meters in the western Troodos Mountains and founded in the late 11th century under the patronage of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. The monastery enshrines the icon of the Virgin Mary Kykkotissa, traditionally attributed to St. Luke, sheathed in gilt silver since 1756 with the Virgin's face kept covered and never unveiled. Destroyed by fire in 1365, 1541, 1751, and 1813, the monastery was rebuilt after each conflagration.
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