A stranger visiting Deryneia can visit churches, chapels and country churches all of historical and architectural interest . The old church dedicated to the Virgin Mary stands in the centre of Deryneia. It was initially a very small church with a Byzantine dome. It was built in the late 15th or early 16th century. Two new naves were annexed later on. A plate on the wall tells us that the work was finished in January 1727.

Indoors, the church is decoraded with a beautifully wood carved iconostasis dating from 1911, with old icons of the 18th century and even earlier.

Ayios Georgios Chapel
In the central square of Deryneia, there is also a very old chapel. It is dedicated to Ayios Georgios and was built in the late 15th or early 16th century. It is charming Byzantine rhythm domed chapel.

The altar is separated from the main church by a most beautiful gold-plated wood carved iconostasis.

It dates back to the 16th century. Under the arch, on the northern wall, next to the iconostasis, there is a big fresco representing Ayios Georgios on horseback framed by small icons from his martyrdom.The western half of the church was annexed later on.



Ayios Constantinos Chapel
Two hundred metres east of the Ayios Antonios Chapel stands the Ayios Constantinos Chapel. It has a roof in the shape of secant arches. In its western churchyard there is a well that communicates with other wells through a tunnel and conveys the water collected from the wells 200 metres to the west of the church and ends up in an oblong tank. This work dates from the Frankish and Venetian Period, and it was probably built to convey water for the water supply of the two nearby Middle Age settlements of Koumoudada (POMME D'ADAM) and Laina.




Ayios Antonios Chapel
Two hundred metres east of Ayios Georgios Chapel stands a small chapel dedicated to Ayios Antonios. It is a more recent building at the centre of a place surrounded by a wall. In the 1930's and 1940's it used to be a convent. The church was built by the nuns. Nowadays, only the nave and one cell remain from the Convent.

The chapel of SAINT MODESTOS
Saint Modesto's chapel is in the middle of a small square west of St. George's church. It is a whitewashed chapel built by volunteers in Deryneia early last century. Saint Modestos was a doctor and animal guardian. That's why next to his icon lay wax animal effigies – votive offerings from believers. His name day is celebrated on 16th December

AYIA MARINA country church
A purely Byzantine domed building. Probably from the 12th century. It is composed of two adjacent equal-sized churches communicating through passages. It stands isolated in the fields, about three kilometres east of Deryneia. It is in a small plain which looked once like a small paradise when there were abundant rainfalls. Many almond-trees, fig trees and vineyards with their green colour used to give a pleasant tone to the site.

It stands in the buffer zone, and is therefore inaccessible to non-authorised people. Every year, on the 17th of July, escorted by the United Nations Forces, pilgrims from Deryneia and other parts of Cyprus go there to follow the Holy Mass celebrated there an Orthodox priest.

AYIOS NICOLAOS country church
In the forest of the British Military Base west of Deryneia and near the all Famagusta-Nicosia road, stands the old Ayios Nicolaos Church. It is built with sandstones and has Gothic style motives. It was the church in which the inhabitants of the Middle Age Strovilia settlement used to attend mass.

All Saints Church
This grandiose Church was built in 1992 on the east of the town and close to the Buffer Zone. The foundations were laid in January 1974. Works were annulled because of the Turkish invasion and started again in 1987.
It is a combination of Byzantine and modern architecture, the dominant points being the tile-covered vault and the bell-tower.