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Kalograia (Καλογραία/Bahçeli), Cyprus/Kıbrıs. Church of Christ Antiphonitis (Χριστός Ἀντιφωνητής), exterior.

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Kalograia (Greek: Καλογραία, Turkish: Bahçeli). Church of Christ Antiphonitis (Χριστός Ἀντιφωνητής), exterior, as documented in 1973 (35 mm Kodachrome).

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The Church of Christ Antiphonitis (Χριστός Ἀντιφωνητής) is a domed church in Kyrenia District, located in the mountains near the village of Kalograia. The name Christ Antiphonitis means "Christ who responds" and a number of Greek churches are so designated. The epithet appears to derive from a miraculous icon of some kind which responded to prayers, but no account of this icon in Cyprus is known. The name is testified in the late medieval period. Writing in the sixteenth century, Stefano Lusignan in his Description de toute l'isle de Cypre (Paris, 1580) recalls that Antifoniti was a fief belonging to his family, that his maternal grandmother Isabella Perez Fabricius founded the monastery of Antifonite and that his brother John (who had become a monk under the name Hilarion) died there.

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