BELLAPAISE ABBEY DRONE ÇEKİMİ / KIBRIS GİRNE / CYPRUS KYRENIA

Bellapaise abbey.
Mimari olarak Gotik sanatını taşıyan manastıra ilk yerleşenler 1187 yılında Kudüs'ten göç eden Augustinian mezhebi rahiplerdir. Manastırın ilk binası 1198 ve 1205 yılları arasında yapılmıştır. Günümüzdeki yapının büyük bir kısmı ise lüzinyan Kralı III. Hugh tarafından 1267 ve 1284 yılları arasında inşa ettirilmiştir. Avlunun etrafını çevreleyen revaklar ve yemekhane alanı ise Kral IV. Hugh zamanında 1324 ve 1359 dönemleri arasında tamamlanmıştır. Kıbrısın Osmanlılartarafından fethinden sonra manastır, Kıbrıs Ortodoks Kilisesi'ne verilmiştir. Mevcut kilise üzerinde küçük değişiklikler yapılarak sadece kilise bölümü, ortodoks kilisesi özelliklerini barındıran eklentilerle tamamlanarak; Rum Ortodokslar tarafından manastırın sadece kilise bölümü kullanılmıştır. 1974 Barış Harekatı ile Rumlar adanın güney kesimine göç edince Bellapais manastırı eski eserler ve müzeler dairesi himayesine alınmıştır.
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The site of Bellapais may have been the early residence of the Bishops of Kyrenia, as well as their refuge during the Arab raids of the 7th and 8th centuries.
In 1187, Jerusalem fell to the Saracens and the Augustinian canons who had custody of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre came to Cyprus. Bellapais Abbey was founded for them around 1200 by Aimery de Lusignan. It was consecrated as the Abbey of St. Mary of the Mountain.
The Augustians were soon followed by the White Canons or the Norbertines (also known as Premonstratensians), and this was the rule that was adopted from 1206 onwards. Their white habits gave Bellapais one of its names- it is referred to as the "White Abbey" in 15th and 16th century documents.
In 1246, Sir Roger the Norman gave Bellapais Abbey a fragment of the True Cross and the sum of 600 besants, in exchange for the canons saying masses in perpetuity for his soul and that of his wife, Lady Alix.
The abbey also benefited from the generosity of Hugh III, who died in Tyre in 1284 and is believed to have been buried here. Hugh III gave the abbots of Bellapais the privilege of wearing a mitre, bearing a gilded sword and wearing golden spurs.
Thanks to its pious benefactors, Bellapais Abbey grew in size, importance and wealth. The powerful abbots were frequently in dispute with the Archbishop of Nicosia, and the pope had to intervene in disagreements on several occasions.
King Hugh IV lived in the abbey between 1354 and 1358 and added apartments for himself, but in 1373, Bellapais' glittering treasure attracted the attention of the Genoese, who robbed the abbey of everything light enough to carry. After this, the abbey spun into physical and moral decline. By the mid-16th century, the strict Norbertine rule had been virtually abandoned at Bellapais, with many of the canons taking a wife (or two) and accepting only their own children as novices.
The Venetians shortened the long-standing name, Abbaye de la Paix (Abbey of Peace), to De la Paix, which eventually became Bellapais.
After the Turkish conquest in 1570, the abbey was given to the Orthodox Church. The buildings were neglected and fell into disrepair, but the abbey church was used as the parish church for the village that grew up around the monastery (presumably populated by descendents of the monks).
The grand old abbey impressed foreign visitors: in 1738, English traveller Richard Pococke remarked that he had seen at Bellapais "a most magnificent uninhabited convent... almost entire." When Captain Kinneir of the East India Company passed by in 1814, he saw cows grazing in the outer court.
The abbey fell further into disrepair over the years, its stone being used to build houses in the village. In 1878, the British Army cemented the floor of the great hall and used it for a military hospital. The ruins were repaired in 1912 by George Jeffery, Curator of the Ancient Monuments of Cyprus.
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