Overview

The old church of Agia Paraskevi was located in the place where the church of Agia Paraskevi is today. We do not know exactly when the old church was built. It was the first church of the village and we assume that it was built from the Byzantine years. The small old church of Ag. Paraskevi was extended to the west in 1859 AD, at which time a new iconostasis bearing the date 1859 was built. This iconostasis was preserved by the relevant workshop of the Holy Monastery of Kykkos and is currently located in the Church of Agia Paraskevi. The old church of Agia Paraskevi was destroyed in 1934 and in its place a new magnificent church of Byzantine style was built. Large donations for the construction of the new church were made by: · Gregory Hadjitheodosiou, Moutoulliotis married in Leonarisso: £200 (1917 AD) and · Ioannis Myrianthopoulos, Moutoulliotis expatriate in Alexandria, Egypt: £300 (1921 AD) The architect of the church was Odysseas Tsangaridis from Nicosia. In 1938 AD bids were announced for the wood-carved decoration of the church (iconostasis, Holy Altar, shrine, pulpit and high priest's throne). The project was undertaken by the woodcarver Artemis A. Papadopoulos from Nicosia for the sum of £390. All the icons (small and large) found in the iconostasis of the church of St. Paraskevi are works of the famous painter - iconographer Solon Fragoulidis. In April 1997, the Moutoulla Church Committee entered into an agreement with the Holy Monastery of Kykkos which provided for the granting of a number of icons and other works to the museum of the Holy Monastery of Kykkos for a period of fifty years. For its part, the Monastery of Kykkos undertook the painting of the church of Agia Paraskevi. ( At a cost of one hundred thousand pounds, and a deposit on behalf of the church of fifty thousand pounds, the interest on which will be allocated for the salary of the vicar of the community of Mutoulla. The images provided: Saint Basil, 13th century St. John the Baptist, 1280s. Jesus Christ, 13th century, 13th century Virgin Mary Hodegetria, 13th century Mother of God, 13th century Jesus Christ the Moses, 13th century Theotokos Hodegetria, 13th - 14th century St. Mamas and scenes from his life, 14th century Archangel Gabriel, 13th-14th century Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world, 15th century Mother of God the Cyclotess, 15th-16th century Archangel Gabriel, 16th century Virgin Mary, 16th century St. John the Theologian, 18th century Crucifix and sad iconostasis top, 19th century