The Famagusta region is one of three cluster areas identified by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage. Together with the Othello Tower/Citadel, Martinengo Bastion and the city-side portion of the Walls between Arsenal and Sea Gate, St. Mary’s of the Armenians Church, St. Anne’s Church, St. Mary of Carmel Church (Carmelite) and the Mescit of Tabakhane/Tanners’ Mosque form part of the so-called “Martinengo-Famagusta duster”, by which the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage aims to promote the protection of the walled city’s important cultural heritage.The Famagusta region is one of three cluster areas identified by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage. Together with the Othello Tower/Citadel, Martinengo Bastion and the city-side portion of the Walls between Arsenal and Sea Gate, St. Mary’s of the Armenians Church, St. Anne’s Church, St. Mary of Carmel Church (Carmelite) and the Mescit of Tabakhane/Tanners’ Mosque form part of the so-called “Martinengo-Famagusta duster”, by which the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage aims to promote the protection of the walled city’s important cultural heritage.

The church was probably built after the middle of the 14th Century by Armenian refugees from the port of Lajazzo. It was therefore built in a smaller simpler scale and form than the others around it. The church consists of a single nave and apse roofed by a square groin vault. A ceremony to celebrate the completion of the conservation works took place on 26 May 2018. Total

Initially built as a Jacobite Church and converted into a small mosque (mescit) during the Ottoman period, it lies between the church of St. Mary of Carmel and St. Anne’s Church and is a curious mix of French, Gothic and Byzantine architecture. Built in the 15th or 16th Century it was later converted into a mescit (small mosque). Built of fine cut ashlar stone it consists of two bays roofed with groin vaults and it has a circular apse with a semi dome.

The church was probably built in the early 14th Century and was part of a monastic complex. It was built in what was known as the Syrian quarter and was originally a Latin, Catholic church but it was given to the Maronítes in the 14th Century. It also consists of a single nave with two bays with groin vaults separated by transverse ribs.

This Carmelite church was part of a monastic complex dedicated to the Virgin Mary, built between 1324 and 1366 and painted sometime between the 14th and 15th Centuries, It is a beautiful and simple building consisting of a single nave with three bays and a semi hexagonal apse. A ceremony to celebrate the completion of the conservation works took place on 26 May 2018.