İskele Icon Museum.

What to see at İskele Icon Museum

• A single-aisle domed church that keeps most of its wall paintings from the early twelfth century.
• Paintings in a recess on the south wall, also twelfth-century, were uncovered in November 1967.
• A carved marble slab in the modern bell tower is probably part of the original iconostasis.

History of İskele Icon Museum

12th century

Built as the village's main church, a single-aisle domed building.

15th century

A vaulted north aisle is added.

1966–67

The wall paintings are cleaned in 1966, and more are uncovered in 1967.

1991

The church opens as an icon museum on 23 May.

Visiting İskele Icon Museum

Allow about half an hour. The church is in İskele town, and the İK.26 road passes beside it. A car park is mapped about 250 m away and no bus stop is mapped within about 500 m. The İskele Archaeology Museum is within about 250 m.

Monuments near İskele Icon Museum

• İskele Archaeology Museumabout 250 m north-eastFinds from eight periods, from the Neolithic to Rome, in a British-period market hall.
• Salamisabout 11 km southThe great classical city of the island, founded about 1100 BC.
• Royal Tombs of Salamisabout 12 km southChariot burials of the kings of Salamis, from the ninth to seventh centuries BC.