Koutsovendis[2] or Koutsoventis[3] (Greek: Κουτσοβέντης, Turkish: Güngör) is a village in the Kyrenia District of Cyprus.

[7] The monastery is known for its murals, which are currently whitewashed over and covered in white paper as the area is in a Turkish militarized zone and has been since 1974.

[9] The new south church was rebuilt on the foundations of the old structure and in a rectangular fashion, having three bays, and is covered by pointed cross-groin vaults.

[9] The founder of the chapel and donor for the painted decorations was the Governor of Cyprus, Eumathios Philokales.

All that remains currently are remnants and preliminary sketches made in red ocher upon bare masonry.

A larger section of the painting still remains between windows ten and eleven and shows the upper half of a seated figure.

[9] While no painting exists between windows eleven and twelve, there is a preserved drawing on the plaster and masonry.

All that is left of the leftmost angel is the outer edge of the right wing and the orb that was held in his right hand.

These three figures reside above a life sized procession of bishops clothed in pale garments and holding open scrolls.

Basil, located on the north wall of the bema, is preserved to below the knees and exhibits short dark hair and a long beard.The scroll is held in both hands and bears a text from the prayer of the first antiphon of St.

[9] The vault of the bema holds a fresco of the Ascension with, what would have been six, apostles looking up at Christ being carried by four angels in a mandorla.

Upon the face of the apse, in the southeast corner of the bema, there remains fragments of a bishop from just below the eyes to elbow level.

Dressed in a brown mantle and a white epitrachelion adorned with small black crosses, the bishop holds a gilded book in his left hand.

The background of the soffit was a blue-black and that of the medallions alternately green and red...the haloes of all the saints were yellow ochre, outlines in white and red-brown along the outer circumference.

A door has been placed incorrectly due to construction to preserve the integrity of the building, so it seems as if the painting is cut short on one side.

All that remains of Christ is his head and the portion of his body extending form his hips to just below the knees.

[9] "David and Solomon stand in identical poses, their left arms raised in the same awkward vertical position, and are dressed in the same costume...The two prophets wear identical crowns composed of six "gold" (yellow ochre) plaques,".

There were originally four compositions that were arranged within three registers: The Betrayal, the Judgement of Pilate, and the Road to Calvary, and a depiction of the Crucifixion in the lower section.

Dumbarton Oaks Papers 44 (1990): 63-94. doi:10.2307/1291618 Papacostas, Tassos, Cyril Mango, and Michael Grünbart.

"The History and Architecture of the Monastery of Saint John Chrysostomos at Koutsovendis, Cyprus."