Byzantine Fresco Chapel
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The Byzantine Fresco Chapel is a part of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, near the University of St. Thomas. From February 1997 to February 2012, it displayed the only intact Byzantine frescoes
The exterior of the Byzantine Fresco Chapel in Houston
Church within a Museum; the glass and wood chapel that housed the only intact Byzantine frescoes in the Western hemisphere
Church of St. Euphemianos
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The Church of St. Euphemianos is a small medieval church, about 2 km to the southwest of the village of Lysi in the Famagusta district of Cyprus. It is a very small, single-dome, stone building and th
Byzantine Fresco Chapel
…the only intact Byzantine frescoes of this size and importance in the western hemisphere. The Byzantine frescoes had been taken from the church of St. Evphemianos in Lysi, Cyprus in the 1980s. In September 2011, the collection announced that the frescos would be permanently returned to Cyprus in February 2012…
Church of St. Euphemianos in Lysi, Cyprus (June 2010)
Side-view of the church
The original dome frescoes depicting Christ Pantokrator. Photo taken during restoration work done by the Department of Antiquities in 1972
The dome of the church in its present state with the frescoes removed (June 2010)