Monastery of St. Neophyte the Recluse

The monastery of St. Neophyte the Recluse in Cyprus is a place that will be remembered for a lifetime. Here you can admire ancient frescoes and mosaics. Believers can pray and bow to the relics of St. Neophyte. Here you can admire the monastery itself and a picturesque view of the surrounding nature. Here you can breathe the wonderful healing air of coniferous trees located in the district.

Also next to the Monastery of St. Neophyte the Recluse there is a museum with icons of the sixteenth - nineteenth centuries, manuscripts and works of St. Neophyte.

The monastery was founded in 1159 by the hermit monk Neophyte. Due to the fact that Neophyte took his disciples, the monastery gradually grew and in the fifteenth century took its present form. In the sixteenth century, the place suffered due to raids by the Turks, but then the monastery was restored.

To date, there are in safety: cells of the hermit Neophyte with preserved frescoes, the Church of the Most Holy Mother of God, a shroud from Russia and magnificent, well-groomed gardens. The route, which you can get to the monastery yourself: by car or taxi to reach the village of Mesogi, then go towards the village of Tremitus, from there on the main way to the monastery. You can get to the monastery and together with the excursion group.