Saint Nikolaos Church

Arriving in the area of the current village of Gerakies, which is built on a very well hidden, sloping, green and amphitheater slope, the villagers built many small houses and on the highest point of the slope, they built a Temple which they dedicated to Agios Nikolaos. The Church then became the Catholic Church of a large Monastic community. In today’s years, we see the exact same tactic of building small monastic settlements, which surround a large Monastery, taking place in the Holy Monastery of Machaira.

The Monastery of Agios Nikolaos, the Catholic Church, the state settlements as well as the small Temples that were in them, were destroyed by the Ottoman Turks, when at the end of the 16th century they invaded the island, simultaneously displacing the Venetians and the Franks.

In the 18th century, the Temple was rebuilt on the ruins of the old one, with Troodos stone but much smaller than the first one. It is built on the model used for all the Temples that were built at that time in the Troodos area, which wanted the Temples to consist of an elongated and rectangular building like a portico, without a bell tower, double-aisled, with a wooden roof and a tiled roof.<br>
The Temple is always closed and is under the protection of the Department of Antiquities of the island.