Kyrenia Icon Museum

Kyrenia Icon Museum, officially named the Church of Archangel Michael, is an icon museum in the city of Kyrenia, Cyprus.

The building, constructed as a church in 1860, has a bell tower added in 1885 that can be seen from almost everywhere in the city. After the establishment of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Department of Antiquities and Museums carried out church and surrounding area renovations, converting it into a museum, and it was opened to visitors on 11 June 1990. For this, 10 million TL were spent with the currency of the period. The three‑storey building displays icons from the 17th–19th centuries. These icons were previously located in the warehouses of the Department of Antiquities and Museums.

Key facts

Type: museum, secularized church

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Coordinates: 35.342154, 33.318640Open in Google Maps

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Sources

The text on this page is translated from: Girne İkon Müzesi (tr.wikipedia.org), as of 12 August 2026

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